Most benchmarks are within the 3% margin of error. This code path is quite common in the fmt package.

linux/arm, Freescale iMX.53 (cortex-a8)

fmt:
benchmark                      old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkSprintfEmpty                925          785  -15.14%
BenchmarkSprintfString              5050         5039   -0.22%
BenchmarkSprintfInt                 4425         4406   -0.43%
BenchmarkSprintfIntInt              5802         5762   -0.69%
BenchmarkSprintfPrefixedInt         7029         6541   -6.94%
BenchmarkSprintfFloat              10278        10083   -1.90%
BenchmarkManyArgs                  18558        17606   -5.13%
BenchmarkScanInts               15592690     15415360   -1.14%
BenchmarkScanRecursiveInt       25155020     25050900   -0.41%

R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6921056