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rsc opened this issue Feb 2, 2022 · 10 comments
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cmd/go: 'go env' takes 5+ seconds on my Mac #50982

rsc opened this issue Feb 2, 2022 · 10 comments
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rsc commented Feb 2, 2022

I don't know why, but 'go env' regularly takes 5+ seconds on my MacBook Pro, and it's really annoying.
A second 'go env' shortly thereafter is quick.
I suspect the time is going into invoking clang to determine which flags are valid.
I wonder if we are doing that wrong, or if we can avoid it more often?
I also wonder whether this is due to some kind of antivirus/execution "safety" thing on my Mac that forgets that clang is OK.
But I don't know for sure it's clang at all.

Is anyone else seeing this?
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matloob commented Feb 2, 2022

I'm seeing this too.

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jfesler commented Feb 2, 2022

Observed ~2 seconds initial delay on Mac mini (M1, 2020), and no perceivable delay on followup runs.

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beoran commented Feb 3, 2022

I just tried it on the work Mac and I also see this.

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robpike commented Feb 3, 2022

I just tested and got 7.5 seconds!

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juev commented Feb 4, 2022

I just tested several times and got:

> time go env
...
go env  0.05s user 0.05s system 74% cpu 0.126 total

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night-codes commented Feb 4, 2022 •
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macOS 12.0.1 / MacBook Pro M1 / go 1.18beta1

go env 0.04s user 0.19s system 82% cpu 0.278 total

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It could also be a check on go itself and not clang, perhaps by macos gatekeeper

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hyangah commented Feb 9, 2022

Probably not go itself.
I ran go env GOOS or go env GOARCH or go env GOPROXY before trying go env. The answer was immediate.
Then, I ran go env. That took good 5sec.

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vatine commented Feb 10, 2022 •
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Just tried on my Mac (more data points, probably not hurtful):

% time go env
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go env  0.08s user 0.20s system 49% cpu 0.570 total
% go version
go version go1.17.5 darwin/amd64

This was without pre-warming Go.

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Change https://go.dev/cl/392454 mentions this issue: cmd/go: cache compiler flag info

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