because free needs to mark the block as freed to
coordinate with the garbage collector.
(in C++ free can blindly put the block on the free list,
no questions asked, so the cache saves some work.)
R=iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/206069
* specialize sweepspan as sweepspan0 and sweepspan1.
* in sweepspan1, inline "free" to avoid expensive mlookup.
R=iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/206060
* move memory code into $GOOS-specific directory.
* allow printing of static strings < 256 bytes.
(dynamic strings will bump maxstring as they are allocated.)
* use cgo2c for runtime.mal.
R=r, dho
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/186143