What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version devel +623e2c4 Mon Jul 31 16:52:36 2017 +0000 linux/amd64

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/localdisk/itocar/gopath"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/localdisk/itocar/golang"
GOTOOLDIR="/localdisk/itocar/golang/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build149758885=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"

What did you do?

Run encoding/base32 benchmark EncodeToString

What did you expect to see?

Same or better performance as 1.8

What did you see instead?

Worse performance:
DecodeString-6 194µs ± 1% 158µs ± 2% -18.74% (p=0.000 n=10+10)

This is caused by 5f4f751