On the go.benchmarks/garbage benchmark with GOMAXPROCS=16:
                   old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
time               1392254       1353170       -2.81%
cputime            21995751      21373999      -2.83%
gc-pause-one       15044812      13050524      -13.26%
gc-pause-total     213636        185317        -13.26%

LGTM=rlh
R=golang-codereviews, rlh
CC=golang-codereviews, khr, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/123380043