The change accidentally come in with this revision:
https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?spec=svn345cbca96c5550f2e89bc727703301933802923c&r=
14c38c23c819a17021b1808cf4a34ef3a1a17db5
R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/
6195073
// 2, 3, and 4 are all plausible maximums depending
// on the hardware details of the machine. The garbage
// collector scales well to 4 cpus.
- MaxGcproc = 16,
+ MaxGcproc = 4,
};
// A generic linked list of blocks. (Typically the block is bigger than sizeof(MLink).)