[tor-bugs] #12648 [Tor bundles/installation]: Upgrade go to 1.3

Thu Jul 17 21:23:23 UTC 2014

#12648: Upgrade go to 1.3
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     Reporter:  dcf                       |      Owner:  erinn
         Type:  task                      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |    Version:
   Resolution:                            |   Keywords:
Actual Points:                            |  TorBrowserTeam201407
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Comment (by dcf):

 Here's the change in overall bundle size. I built with attachment:0001
 -Upgrade-go-to-1.3.patch on top of [https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders
 /tor-browser-bundle.git/commit/5b71d6072028e0d582ad7405597fd615586a0734
 5b71d6072028e0d582ad7405597fd615586a0734].

 ||        || go1.2   || go1.3   || diff   ||
 ||linux32 || 30480760|| 30350672|| −130088||
 ||linux64 || 31974896|| 31883816||  −91080||
 ||mac     || 34122441|| 33925485|| −196956||
 ||windows || 29524997|| 29432798||  −92199||

 Here's the difference in the uncompressed size of the meek-client binary.

 ||        || go1.2  || go1.3  || diff    ||
 ||linux32 || 6574768|| 5105304|| −1469464||
 ||linux64 || 7918328|| 6332256|| −1586072||
 ||mac     || 6502636|| 5053240|| −1449396||
 ||windows || 6075392|| 5192192||  −883200||

 Somewhat bigger gains are going to come from
 [[comment:7:ticket:12387|omitting the symbol table]].

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