Allows a client to pre-allocate buffer space that is known to be necessary,
avoiding expensive reallocations.

R=gri, gri, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6392061

The error was caused by a call to implements() even when
the type switch variable was not an interface.

Fixes #3786.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6354102

Fixes #3818.

R=golang-dev, rsc, r
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6352106

benchmark           old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkHilbert      6253043      6267289   +0.23%
BenchmarkMul         45355940     39490633  -12.93%

R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6355104

Reuse temporary slice to avoid extra allocations
(originally done correctly by remyoudompheng@gmail.com
in https://golang.org/cl/6345075/).

benchmark           old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkHilbert      6252790      6262304   +0.15%
BenchmarkMul         45827438     45301002   -1.15%

R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6346097

R=golang-dev, dsymonds, r, nigeltao
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6374059

The previous implementation used to have a O(n) recursion
depth for unbalanced inputs. A test is added to check that a
reasonable amount of bytes is allocated in this case.

Fixes #3807.

R=golang-dev, dsymonds, gri
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6345075

This is the remainder of https://golang.org/cl/4601051.

Partially addresses issue 2705.

R=golang-dev, r, bradfitz, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6354066

Also adds a new test for GOMAXPROCS=16 explicitly, which now passes
reliably in a stress loop like:

$ go test -c
$ (while ./http.test -test.v -test.run=Concurrency; do echo pass; done ) 2>&1 | tee foo; less foo

(It used to fail very quickly and reliably on at least Linux/amd64)

Fixes #3793

R=golang-dev, adg, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6347061

R=golang-dev, dave, r
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6378046

OpenSSL requires that RSA signatures be exactly the same byte-length
as the modulus. Currently it'll reject ~1/256 of our signatures: those
that end up a byte shorter.

Fixes #3796.

R=golang-dev, edsrzf, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6352093

Fixes #3424.

R=fullung, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6343088

Previously, strings that didn't have an explicit ASN.1 string type
were taken to be ASN.1 PrintableStrings. This resulted in an error if
a unrepresentable charactor was included.

For compatibility reasons, I'm too afraid to switch the default string
type to UTF8String, but this patch causes untyped strings to become
UTF8Strings if they contain a charactor that's not valid in a
PrintableString.

Fixes #3791.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz, r, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6348074

Entrust have issued a root certificate that's not marked as valid for
signing certificates.

This results in Go programs failing to validate certificates that
chain up to this root (i.e. gateway.push.apple.com:2195).

Although this is clearly a mistake on Entrust's part, it seems that we
will have to bodge around it.

R=golang-dev, dave, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6346064

Also improve extfloat.Normalize to obtain a modest performance
gain in parsing, and add a shortcut path for exact integers.

benchmark                              old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkAtof64Decimal                        73           73   -0.54%
BenchmarkAtof64Float                          91           91   -0.54%
BenchmarkAtof64FloatExp                      198          180   -9.09%
BenchmarkAtof64Big                           307          308   +0.33%

BenchmarkAtof32Decimal                        72           72   +0.42%
BenchmarkAtof32Float                          83           83   -0.72%
BenchmarkAtof32FloatExp                      212          186  -12.26%
BenchmarkAtof32Random                        262          250   -4.58%

BenchmarkAppendFloatDecimal                  474          305  -35.65%
BenchmarkAppendFloat                         497          489   -1.61%
BenchmarkAppendFloatExp                      493          483   -2.03%
BenchmarkAppendFloatNegExp                   481          481   +0.00%
BenchmarkAppendFloatBig                      667          652   -2.25%

BenchmarkAppendFloat32Integer                338          307   -9.17%
BenchmarkAppendFloat32ExactFraction          364          439  +20.60%
BenchmarkAppendFloat32Point                 1299          490  -62.28%
BenchmarkAppendFloat32Exp                   2593          489  -81.14%
BenchmarkAppendFloat32NegExp                5116          481  -90.60%

R=rsc, r
CC=golang-dev, remy
https://golang.org/cl/6303087

R=golang-dev, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6343084

Ran 'double.pl' on the pkg tree to identify doubled words.
One change to an error string return in x509;  the rest are in comments.
Thanks to Matt Jibson for the idea.

R=golang-dev, bsiegert
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6344089

R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6344088

R=golang-dev, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6355076

R=golang-dev, alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6349082

Made the following changes:
 - Export errprintf() from all three OS-specific modules
 - Added errprintf() to a.h
 - Moved errprintf() in windows.c under xprintf(), since they are so similar
 - Replaced all instances of xprintf() with errprintf() where a vflag check is done
Fixes #3788.

R=golang-dev, alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6346056

according to http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/browserAction.html,
it should use "default_popup" instead of "popup".

R=golang-dev, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6349077

        So that _cgo_gotypes.go will be the same for the same source
        code.

R=nigeltao
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6357067

Move panic/defer/recover-related stuff from proc.c/runtime.c to a new file panic.c.
No semantic changes.
proc.c is 1800+ LOC and is a bit difficult to work with.

R=golang-dev, dave, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6343071

This could be deduced from "The Laws of Reflection" but it seems
worthwhile highlighting it.

R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6350073

The use of math.Pow for mere squaring can be extremely
slow on soft-float ARM. Even on systems with hardware
floating-point, a speedup in test duration is observed.

On amd64
Before: ok      math/rand       2.009s
After:  ok      math/rand       0.340s

Fixes #3740.

R=dave, golang-dev, r, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6348061

And fix some govet-caught format arg issues.

R=r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6354068

The old code added a star but did not indirect the reflect.Type.

R=bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6348067

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6353055

The previous version was not handling an off_t (64 bit)
parameter on 32 bit i386 systems.  This patch splits sendfile
into two implementations in their respective arch-specific files.
Tested on FreeBSD amd64 and i386.

R=bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6356048

1. Rename 'g' and 'm' local vars to 'gp' and 'mp' (convention already used in some functions)
'g' and 'm' are global vars that mean current goroutine and current machine,
when they are shadowed by local vars, it's confusing, no ability to debug log both, etc.
2. White-space shuffling.
No semantic changes.
In preparation to bigger changes.

R=golang-dev, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6355061

Fixes #2492

R=rsc, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6295073

There may be further savings if convT2I can avoid the function call
if the cache is good and T is uintptr-shaped, a la convT2E, but that
will be a follow-up CL.

src/pkg/runtime:
benchmark                  old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkConvT2ISmall             43           15  -64.01%
BenchmarkConvT2IUintptr           45           14  -67.48%
BenchmarkConvT2ILarge            130          101  -22.31%

test/bench/go1:
benchmark                 old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkBinaryTree17    8588997000   8499058000   -1.05%
BenchmarkFannkuch11      5300392000   5358093000   +1.09%
BenchmarkGobDecode         30295580     31040190   +2.46%
BenchmarkGobEncode         18102070     17675650   -2.36%
BenchmarkGzip             774191400    771591400   -0.34%
BenchmarkGunzip           245915100    247464100   +0.63%
BenchmarkJSONEncode       123577000    121423050   -1.74%
BenchmarkJSONDecode       451969800    596256200  +31.92%
BenchmarkMandelbrot200     10060050     10072880   +0.13%
BenchmarkParse             10989840     11037710   +0.44%
BenchmarkRevcomp         1782666000   1716864000   -3.69%
BenchmarkTemplate         798286600    723234400   -9.40%

R=rsc, bradfitz, go.peter.90, daniel.morsing, dave, uriel
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6337058

The switch at the beginning of the function already ensures n > 1,
so testing for n < 2 is redundant.

R=golang-dev, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6350051

Occasionally I see:
--- FAIL: TestAllocations-15 (0.00 seconds)
        all_test.go:1575: 6 mallocs after 100 iterations
Tested:
$ go test -cpu=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 reflect

R=golang-dev, dsymonds, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6354063

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6348062

     Fixes #3789.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6357058

        Fixes #3765.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6349064

otherwise it fails spuriously with "newfunc allocated unexpectedly" message
when run with GOMAXPROCS>1 (other goroutine allocates).

R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6347056

It will be required for scheduler that maintains
GOMAXPROCS MCache's.

R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6350062