Significant performance regression since 1.62

[pfouilloux]

Welcome

• Yes, I'm using a binary release within 2 latest releases. Only such installations are supported.
• Yes, I've searched similar issues on GitHub and didn't find any.
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Description of the problem

We've been struggling with very long lint times on our project, and one of our team members noticed performance was much better on version 1.61...

The examples below are a bit contrived as they are without cache. The cache does help but it's still not uncommon to see times >1min on an M4 Macbook Pro with 32GB ram when touching files that are near the root of the dependency tree, it's just a bit of a pain to benchmark that reliably.

It's even worse for team members on older hardware, with some reporting linting taking up to 10 minutes on M1/16GB Macbooks.

I've done a couple of quick benchmarks to illustrate:

Notice that the latest version is 1.5x-2x slower than 1.61.0
We've narrowed it down to somewhere between 1.61.0 and 1.62.2.

I'd be happy to have a go at improving this, but could use some assistance if there are some obvious places to check and/or updated packages that are more likely to be where the degradation is coming from.

I've used mise.jdx.dev to quickly switch between versions but we're vendoring in golangci-lint from the official binary normally.

v1.64.7 - our repo - 94.36s

golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/2-areas/platform /Users/pfx/code/2-areas /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [goenv] Read go env for 5.38825ms: map[string]string{"GOCACHE":"/Users/pfx/Library/Caches/go-build", "GOROOT":"/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.23.6"} 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 20 linters: [depguard dogsled errcheck exhaustive gci gocritic gofmt goimports goprintffuncname gosimple govet makezero predeclared revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testpackage tparallel unconvert unused] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (compiled_files|deps|exports_file|name|types_sizes|files|imports) took 1.466605s 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 127.481083ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 1h15m46.143915518s with top 10 stages: buildir: 8m42.547657609s, goimports: 5m23.94896072s, the_only_name: 3m51.560881539s, unconvert: 2m26.072338515s, gocritic: 1m11.835696217s, gci: 57.167173259s, buildssa: 57.132585509s, gofmt: 51.003987963s, S1038: 50.016766632s, nilness: 34.707608705s 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 1 issues by rules: [Source: "(?i)^//\\$\\(which go\\)", Linters: "gocritic"] 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 12730, after processing: 0 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): filename_unadjuster: 12730/12730, path_relativity: 12730/12730, exclusion_paths: 12730/12730, exclusion_rules: 12730/32, path_absoluter: 12730/12730, cgo: 12730/12730, skip_dirs: 12730/12730, generated_file_filter: 12730/12730, identifier_marker: 12730/12730, nolint_filter: 32/0, invalid_issue: 12730/12730, skip_files: 12730/12730 
INFO [runner] processing took 92.27958ms with stages: generated_file_filter: 40.326083ms, exclusion_rules: 34.347916ms, skip_dirs: 5.796208ms, nolint_filter: 4.588584ms, path_relativity: 4.457083ms, invalid_issue: 829.332µs, cgo: 651.333µs, path_absoluter: 592.666µs, identifier_marker: 389.291µs, filename_unadjuster: 298.083µs, max_same_issues: 583ns, exclusion_paths: 501ns, sort_results: 459ns, fixer: 334ns, path_shortener: 167ns, diff: 167ns, skip_files: 125ns, source_code: 125ns, path_prettifier: 125ns, uniq_by_line: 125ns, max_from_linter: 124ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 83ns, severity-rules: 83ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 1m32.621252209s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 1m32.528679083s 
INFO File cache stats: 8 entries of total size 132.3KiB 
INFO Memory: 856 samples, avg is 3342.7MB, max is 5435.0MB 
INFO Execution took 1m34.23183775s                

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Executed in   94.36 secs    fish           external
   usr time  209.44 secs   29.00 micros  209.44 secs
   sys time  208.56 secs  320.00 micros  208.56 secs

v1.64.7 - golangci-lint repo - 13.96s

golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [goenv] Read go env for 5.256333ms: map[string]string{"GOCACHE":"/Users/pfx/Library/Caches/go-build", "GOROOT":"/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.24.1"} 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 20 linters: [depguard dogsled errcheck exhaustive gci gocritic gofmt goimports goprintffuncname gosimple govet makezero predeclared revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testpackage tparallel unconvert unused] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (compiled_files|exports_file|imports|deps|files|name|types_sizes) took 739.015709ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 10.975208ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 4m51.309911657s with top 10 stages: buildir: 1m12.353763424s, the_only_name: 23.068014253s, goimports: 20.804942005s, unconvert: 9.847325041s, fact_deprecated: 5.849002084s, exhaustive: 5.800382049s, gocritic: 5.37269097s, printf: 4.918556524s, ctrlflow: 4.533309826s, inspect: 4.352578737s 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Source: "(?i)^//\\$\\(which go\\)", Linters: "gocritic"] 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 1692, after processing: 507 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): path_relativity: 1692/1692, exclusion_paths: 1692/1692, generated_file_filter: 1692/1692, exclusion_rules: 1692/721, uniq_by_line: 717/709, severity-rules: 507/507, filename_unadjuster: 1692/1692, skip_dirs: 1692/1692, nolint_filter: 721/717, diff: 717/717, max_from_linter: 507/507, path_absoluter: 1692/1692, fixer: 717/717, max_same_issues: 507/507, skip_files: 1692/1692, identifier_marker: 1692/1692, max_per_file_from_linter: 709/507, source_code: 507/507, path_shortener: 507/507, path_prettifier: 507/507, sort_results: 507/507, cgo: 1692/1692, invalid_issue: 1692/1692 
INFO [runner] processing took 40.778542ms with stages: nolint_filter: 18.315292ms, generated_file_filter: 8.054291ms, exclusion_rules: 7.948125ms, source_code: 3.874584ms, skip_dirs: 844.501µs, path_relativity: 609.875µs, sort_results: 545.875µs, uniq_by_line: 108.208µs, invalid_issue: 82µs, cgo: 78.708µs, path_absoluter: 78.375µs, identifier_marker: 72.333µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 56.833µs, path_shortener: 52.25µs, filename_unadjuster: 40.75µs, path_prettifier: 14.5µs, max_same_issues: 707ns, exclusion_paths: 375ns, fixer: 293ns, max_from_linter: 208ns, severity-rules: 167ns, skip_files: 167ns, diff: 125ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 13.1195375s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 13.078657625s 
INFO File cache stats: 364 entries of total size 791.6KiB 
INFO Memory: 140 samples, avg is 988.9MB, max is 1386.7MB 
INFO Execution took 13.882652917s                 

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Executed in   13.96 secs    fish           external
   usr time   46.60 secs   28.00 micros   46.60 secs
   sys time   36.50 secs  290.00 micros   36.50 secs

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v1.61.0 - our repo - 30.48s

golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/2-areas/platform /Users/pfx/code/2-areas /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 20 linters: [depguard dogsled errcheck exhaustive gci gocritic gofmt goimports goprintffuncname gosimple govet makezero predeclared revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testpackage tparallel unconvert unused] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (deps|imports|name|types_sizes|compiled_files|files|exports_file) took 1.232954542s 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 122.858917ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 16m46.333819152s with top 10 stages: buildir: 2m32.081693002s, the_only_name: 1m16.605160047s, unconvert: 48.191368608s, gci: 33.988684293s, goimports: 30.439255918s, buildssa: 27.443786584s, gocritic: 20.463837861s, gofmt: 19.537270587s, S1038: 16.578077052s, fact_deprecated: 13.950451036s 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 12734, after processing: 0 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): nolint: 32/0, invalid_issue: 12734/12734, skip_dirs: 12734/12734, identifier_marker: 12734/12734, cgo: 12734/12734, exclude-rules: 12734/32, filename_unadjuster: 12734/12734, path_prettifier: 12734/12734, skip_files: 12734/12734, autogenerated_exclude: 12734/12734, exclude: 12734/12734 
INFO [runner] processing took 551.290668ms with stages: autogenerated_exclude: 222.735042ms, exclude-rules: 178.508584ms, identifier_marker: 111.570542ms, path_prettifier: 26.301792ms, skip_dirs: 5.5495ms, nolint: 4.612708ms, cgo: 788.5µs, invalid_issue: 764.916µs, filename_unadjuster: 456.5µs, sort_results: 1.084µs, max_same_issues: 375ns, uniq_by_line: 249ns, diff: 167ns, skip_files: 166ns, fixer: 125ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 84ns, max_from_linter: 83ns, exclude: 83ns, path_shortener: 42ns, path_prefixer: 42ns, source_code: 42ns, severity-rules: 42ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 28.966006458s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 28.414657167s 
INFO File cache stats: 8 entries of total size 132.3KiB 
INFO Memory: 300 samples, avg is 3108.3MB, max is 5292.8MB 
INFO Execution took 30.331369708s                 

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Executed in   30.48 secs    fish           external
   usr time  207.87 secs   41.00 micros  207.87 secs
   sys time   30.33 secs  352.00 micros   30.33 secs

v1.61.0 - golangci-lint repo - 7.28s

❯ golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 20 linters: [depguard dogsled errcheck exhaustive gci gocritic gofmt goimports goprintffuncname gosimple govet makezero predeclared revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testpackage tparallel unconvert unused] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (compiled_files|name|types_sizes|deps|exports_file|files|imports) took 568.71375ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 11.621ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 2m40.209582595s with top 10 stages: SA5012: 2.128580502s, nilness: 1.946276669s, SA1028: 1.686747091s, SA1024: 1.548594294s, SA5011: 1.507124704s, exhaustive: 1.470268658s, ctrlflow: 1.46878338s, SA1023: 1.448945918s, SA1003: 1.434683541s, SA6001: 1.425019419s 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 35161, after processing: 187 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): exclude-rules: 35154/35154, uniq_by_line: 35154/187, max_from_linter: 187/187, path_shortener: 187/187, severity-rules: 187/187, filename_unadjuster: 35161/35161, skip_files: 35154/35154, fixer: 187/187, nolint: 35154/35154, diff: 187/187, identifier_marker: 35154/35154, exclude: 35154/35154, max_per_file_from_linter: 187/187, max_same_issues: 187/187, path_prefixer: 187/187, cgo: 35161/35161, invalid_issue: 35161/35154, autogenerated_exclude: 35154/35154, source_code: 187/187, sort_results: 187/187, path_prettifier: 35154/35154, skip_dirs: 35154/35154 
INFO [runner] processing took 194.384832ms with stages: identifier_marker: 180.004375ms, path_prettifier: 7.5295ms, autogenerated_exclude: 2.596916ms, source_code: 878.167µs, skip_dirs: 602µs, uniq_by_line: 518.5µs, filename_unadjuster: 498.958µs, invalid_issue: 476.708µs, nolint: 470.958µs, cgo: 470.375µs, exclude-rules: 291.626µs, sort_results: 33.333µs, path_shortener: 8.708µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 3.376µs, max_same_issues: 375ns, fixer: 251ns, skip_files: 249ns, exclude: 208ns, diff: 166ns, max_from_linter: 83ns, path_prefixer: 0s, severity-rules: 0s 
INFO [runner] linters took 6.614266333s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 6.419802625s 
INFO File cache stats: 52 entries of total size 268.5KiB 
INFO Memory: 74 samples, avg is 1585.9MB, max is 2155.2MB 
INFO Execution took 7.202327208s                  

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Executed in    7.28 secs    fish           external
   usr time   18.55 secs   47.00 micros   18.55 secs
   sys time    6.36 secs  519.00 micros    6.36 secs

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v1.62.2 - our repo - 98.60s

❯ golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
golangci-lint has version 1.62.2 built with go1.23.3 from 89476e7a on 2024-11-25T14:16:01Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.62.2 built with go1.23.3 from 89476e7a on 2024-11-25T14:16:01Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/2-areas/platform /Users/pfx/code/2-areas /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 20 linters: [depguard dogsled errcheck exhaustive gci gocritic gofmt goimports goprintffuncname gosimple govet makezero predeclared revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testpackage tparallel unconvert unused] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (types_sizes|compiled_files|imports|name|deps|exports_file|files) took 1.327498291s 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 131.053334ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 1h8m32.901853981s with top 10 stages: buildir: 9m24.29088962s, goimports: 5m44.991186468s, the_only_name: 4m17.010925691s, unconvert: 2m37.044259555s, gci: 1m39.809556491s, gocritic: 1m5.701493456s, S1038: 58.342486334s, buildssa: 57.010763741s, gofmt: 45.747209843s, nilness: 31.878821318s 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 12732, after processing: 0 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): autogenerated_exclude: 12732/12732, identifier_marker: 12732/12732, exclude-rules: 12732/32, skip_files: 12732/12732, filename_unadjuster: 12732/12732, cgo: 12732/12732, exclude: 12732/12732, path_prettifier: 12732/12732, skip_dirs: 12732/12732, nolint: 32/0, invalid_issue: 12732/12732 
INFO [runner] processing took 365.183541ms with stages: exclude-rules: 179.636333ms, identifier_marker: 103.203583ms, autogenerated_exclude: 40.551667ms, path_prettifier: 29.495084ms, skip_dirs: 5.52225ms, nolint: 4.782542ms, invalid_issue: 905µs, cgo: 709.875µs, filename_unadjuster: 373.708µs, max_same_issues: 833ns, sort_results: 708ns, fixer: 333ns, skip_files: 292ns, exclude: 249ns, diff: 209ns, uniq_by_line: 207ns, max_from_linter: 168ns, source_code: 167ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 126ns, path_prefixer: 83ns, severity-rules: 83ns, path_shortener: 41ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 1m37.007741375s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 1m36.642083042s 
INFO File cache stats: 8 entries of total size 132.3KiB 
INFO Memory: 850 samples, avg is 3482.6MB, max is 5375.6MB 
INFO Execution took 1m38.476208375s               

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Executed in   98.60 secs    fish           external
   usr time  227.91 secs   30.00 micros  227.91 secs
   sys time  212.68 secs  318.00 micros  212.68 secs

v1.62.2 - golangci-lint repo - 14.85

golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
golangci-lint has version 1.62.2 built with go1.23.3 from 89476e7a on 2024-11-25T14:16:01Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.62.2 built with go1.23.3 from 89476e7a on 2024-11-25T14:16:01Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 20 linters: [depguard dogsled errcheck exhaustive gci gocritic gofmt goimports goprintffuncname gosimple govet makezero predeclared revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testpackage tparallel unconvert unused] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (name|types_sizes|compiled_files|exports_file|imports|deps|files) took 707.264917ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 11.109042ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 5m30.715674987s with top 10 stages: buildir: 1m25.380368252s, goimports: 24.455756046s, the_only_name: 16.965053422s, unconvert: 11.006405117s, gci: 9.865992166s, gocritic: 7.403908004s, fact_deprecated: 6.79777734s, exhaustive: 6.253641751s, inspect: 5.580758556s, printf: 5.428318296s 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 1691, after processing: 708 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): filename_unadjuster: 1691/1691, invalid_issue: 1691/1691, path_prettifier: 1691/1691, skip_files: 1691/1691, skip_dirs: 1691/1691, exclude: 1691/1691, uniq_by_line: 716/708, max_same_issues: 708/708, fixer: 708/708, sort_results: 708/708, exclude-rules: 1691/720, nolint: 720/716, diff: 708/708, max_from_linter: 708/708, path_prefixer: 708/708, max_per_file_from_linter: 708/708, path_shortener: 708/708, cgo: 1691/1691, autogenerated_exclude: 1691/1691, identifier_marker: 1691/1691, source_code: 708/708, severity-rules: 708/708 
INFO [runner] processing took 68.001703ms with stages: exclude-rules: 21.502458ms, nolint: 17.134583ms, identifier_marker: 11.470291ms, autogenerated_exclude: 7.751666ms, path_prettifier: 4.560917ms, source_code: 3.691458ms, skip_dirs: 836.166µs, sort_results: 661.75µs, cgo: 112.542µs, uniq_by_line: 89.083µs, invalid_issue: 79.708µs, path_shortener: 51.958µs, filename_unadjuster: 42.083µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 15.043µs, max_same_issues: 833ns, diff: 250ns, skip_files: 250ns, max_from_linter: 208ns, severity-rules: 166ns, fixer: 166ns, exclude: 83ns, path_prefixer: 41ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 14.034032s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 13.965913208s 
INFO File cache stats: 357 entries of total size 759.8KiB 
INFO Memory: 146 samples, avg is 905.3MB, max is 1116.3MB 
INFO Execution took 14.760288791s                 

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Executed in   14.85 secs    fish           external
   usr time   50.16 secs   30.00 micros   50.16 secs
   sys time   34.69 secs  337.00 micros   34.69 secs

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z```

Configuration

# Clearing the cache for apples to apples comparison of running time. Performance still very much slower than 1.61 with cache.
golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v

run:
  allow-parallel-runners: true
  build-tags:
    - integration
  timeout: 5m

output:
  sort-results: true

linters:
  disable-all: true
  enable:
    - dogsled
    - errcheck
    - exhaustive
    - gci
    - gocritic
    - gofmt
    - goimports
    - revive
    - goprintffuncname
    - gosimple
    - govet
    - makezero
    - predeclared
    - staticcheck
    - testpackage
    - tparallel
    - typecheck
    - unconvert
    - depguard
    - unused
    - rowserrcheck

linters-settings:
  rowserrcheck:
    packages:
      - github.com/jackc/pgx/v5
  errcheck:
    check-blank: false # Will be enabled in a follow-up commit
  depguard:
    rules:
      main:
        list-mode: lax
        files:
          - "**/handler/**/main.go"
        allow:
          - $gostd
        deny:
          - pkg: "github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
            desc: The usage of this package here is probably a mistake. If you're trying to call lambda.start change it to modules/defaults.start instead (check out other handlers for a complete example). If this is a false positive, please tweak this rule on .golangci.yml

issues:
  max-issues-per-linter: 0
  max-same-issues: 0
  exclude-rules:
    - source: "^//\\$\\(which go\\)"
      linters:
        - gocritic

Go environment

$ go version && go env
GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='arm64'
GOBIN='/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.23.6/bin'
GOCACHE='/Users/pfx/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOENV='/Users/pfx/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/Users/pfx/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Users/pfx/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.23.6'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.23.6/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.23.6'
GODEBUG=''
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/Users/pfx/Library/Application Support/go/telemetry'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOARM64='v8.0'
AR='ar'
CC='clang'
CXX='clang++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/Users/pfx/code/2-areas/platform/go.mod'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/sy/2gb8vxt11bxcxv0tjywtfz480000gn/T/go-build256349768=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v
# paste output here

A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

I copied the config above into the golangci-lint repo and ran the lints here.
It's less glaring because our repo is larger, but we can still see the time is almost doubled on versions > 1.61

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[ldez]

Hello,

I don't observe the same things:

v1.64.7 - golangci-lint repo - 8.55s

$ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.23.7 linux/amd64
golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /home/ldez/sources/golangci/golangci-lint /home/ldez/sources/golangci /home/ldez/sources /home/ldez /home /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [goenv] Read go env for 2.01233ms: map[string]string{"GOCACHE":"/home/ldez/.cache/go-build", "GOROOT":"/home/ldez/.gvm/gos/go1.23.7"} 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 33 linters: [bodyclose copyloopvar depguard dogsled dupl errcheck errorlint funlen gocheckcompilerdirectives gochecknoinits goconst gocritic gocyclo godox goprintffuncname gosec gosimple govet ineffassign intrange lll misspell mnd nakedret noctx nolintlint revive staticcheck testifylint unconvert unparam unused whitespace] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (deps|imports|types_sizes|compiled_files|exports_file|files|name) took 832.117503ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 9.377495ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 2m59.879765215s with top 10 stages: buildir: 1m2.560941917s, the_only_name: 12.101747159s, dupl: 6.016083621s, unconvert: 3.629714477s, gocritic: 2.978675605s, fact_deprecated: 2.628773432s, ctrlflow: 2.607891806s, printf: 2.530308214s, gosec: 2.504255488s, inspect: 2.278005159s 
... 
INFO [runner/max_from_linter] 418/468 issues from linter depguard were hidden, use --max-issues-per-linter 
INFO [runner/max_from_linter] 2/52 issues from linter funlen were hidden, use --max-issues-per-linter 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 3021, after processing: 198 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): path_shortener: 198/198, severity-rules: 198/198, skip_files: 2768/2768, generated_file_filter: 2768/2683, sort_results: 198/198, path_absoluter: 3021/3021, filename_unadjuster: 3021/3021, fixer: 1629/1629, uniq_by_line: 1629/1625, path_prettifier: 198/198, invalid_issue: 3021/3021, path_relativity: 3021/3021, skip_dirs: 2768/2768, exclusion_rules: 2683/1672, nolint_filter: 1672/1629, diff: 1629/1629, max_per_file_from_linter: 1625/1625, source_code: 198/198, cgo: 3021/3021, exclusion_paths: 3021/2768, identifier_marker: 2683/2683, max_same_issues: 1625/618, max_from_linter: 618/198 
INFO [runner] processing took 94.450985ms with stages: exclusion_rules: 57.15378ms, nolint_filter: 26.169956ms, generated_file_filter: 3.187416ms, path_relativity: 1.880823ms, skip_dirs: 1.467807ms, exclusion_paths: 1.072741ms, source_code: 986.197µs, max_same_issues: 500.556µs, invalid_issue: 462.299µs, cgo: 328.992µs, path_absoluter: 306.383µs, uniq_by_line: 270.062µs, identifier_marker: 246.661µs, filename_unadjuster: 220.097µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 133.18µs, max_from_linter: 30.071µs, path_shortener: 28.259µs, path_prettifier: 4.348µs, diff: 519ns, fixer: 291ns, sort_results: 274ns, skip_files: 194ns, severity-rules: 79ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 7.70599729s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 7.611210805s 
INFO File cache stats: 104 entries of total size 584.4KiB 
INFO Memory: 87 samples, avg is 966.8MB, max is 1488.2MB 
INFO Execution took 8.5517257s                    
golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null  85,33s user 5,58s system 1051% cpu 8,646 total

v1.62.2 - golangci-lint repo - 8.35s

$ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.23.7 linux/amd64
golangci-lint has version 1.62.2 built with go1.23.3 from 89476e7a on 2024-11-25T14:16:01Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.62.2 built with go1.23.3 from 89476e7a on 2024-11-25T14:16:01Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /home/ldez/sources/golangci/golangci-lint /home/ldez/sources/golangci /home/ldez/sources /home/ldez /home /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 33 linters: [bodyclose copyloopvar depguard dogsled dupl errcheck errorlint funlen gocheckcompilerdirectives gochecknoinits goconst gocritic gocyclo godox goprintffuncname gosec gosimple govet ineffassign intrange lll misspell mnd nakedret noctx nolintlint revive staticcheck testifylint unconvert unparam unused whitespace] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (exports_file|imports|compiled_files|deps|types_sizes|files|name) took 680.835251ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 11.233699ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 2m45.62470055s with top 10 stages: buildir: 1m2.189828651s, the_only_name: 10.723553541s, dupl: 4.977277056s, gocritic: 3.840314293s, fact_deprecated: 3.11368792s, gosec: 2.660986493s, unconvert: 2.618248641s, buildssa: 2.521156743s, printf: 2.50766643s, inspect: 2.50169218s 
...
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 2791, after processing: 289 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): identifier_marker: 2706/2706, diff: 1608/1608, source_code: 289/289, path_prefixer: 289/289, path_prettifier: 2791/2791, skip_dirs: 2791/2791, autogenerated_exclude: 2791/2706, max_same_issues: 1608/691, severity-rules: 289/289, sort_results: 289/289, cgo: 2791/2791, invalid_issue: 2791/2791, max_per_file_from_linter: 1608/1608, max_from_linter: 691/289, path_shortener: 289/289, exclude-rules: 2706/1664, uniq_by_line: 1621/1608, exclude: 2706/2706, nolint: 1664/1621, fixer: 289/289, filename_unadjuster: 2791/2791, skip_files: 2791/2791 
INFO [runner] processing took 135.70577ms with stages: exclude-rules: 61.108053ms, nolint: 32.638312ms, identifier_marker: 30.068144ms, path_prettifier: 5.04293ms, autogenerated_exclude: 3.418218ms, source_code: 1.141112ms, skip_dirs: 1.136144ms, max_same_issues: 435.619µs, uniq_by_line: 224.4µs, cgo: 150.374µs, invalid_issue: 142.972µs, filename_unadjuster: 85.118µs, path_shortener: 45.917µs, max_from_linter: 35.36µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 31.507µs, exclude: 332ns, diff: 286ns, fixer: 278ns, skip_files: 252ns, sort_results: 186ns, severity-rules: 177ns, path_prefixer: 79ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 7.660672374s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 7.524871034s 
INFO File cache stats: 618 entries of total size 1.7MiB 
INFO Memory: 85 samples, avg is 1037.4MB, max is 1689.1MB 
INFO Execution took 8.356860327s                  
golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null  84,60s user 4,89s system 1059% cpu 8,446 total

v1.61.0 - golangci-lint repo - 9.05s

$ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.23.7 linux/amd64
golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /home/ldez/sources/golangci/golangci-lint /home/ldez/sources/golangci /home/ldez/sources /home/ldez /home /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 33 linters: [bodyclose copyloopvar depguard dogsled dupl errcheck errorlint funlen gocheckcompilerdirectives gochecknoinits goconst gocritic gocyclo godox goprintffuncname gosec gosimple govet ineffassign intrange lll misspell mnd nakedret noctx nolintlint revive staticcheck testifylint unconvert unparam unused whitespace] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (compiled_files|deps|files|exports_file|imports|name|types_sizes) took 712.161217ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 24.055787ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 2m40.260945877s with top 10 stages: buildir: 1m8.654494206s, the_only_name: 11.707940903s, dupl: 5.242718886s, gocritic: 3.003850039s, fact_deprecated: 2.785451601s, unconvert: 2.713514812s, gosec: 2.492745967s, printf: 2.46932154s, ctrlflow: 2.257510384s, buildssa: 2.25570985s 
...
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 2790, after processing: 286 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): cgo: 2790/2790, sort_results: 286/286, identifier_marker: 2705/2705, uniq_by_line: 1618/1605, diff: 1605/1605, source_code: 286/286, path_prefixer: 286/286, severity-rules: 286/286, filename_unadjuster: 2790/2790, invalid_issue: 2790/2790, skip_dirs: 2790/2790, autogenerated_exclude: 2790/2705, exclude: 2705/2705, max_same_issues: 1605/688, max_from_linter: 688/286, path_prettifier: 2790/2790, skip_files: 2790/2790, exclude-rules: 2705/1661, nolint: 1661/1618, max_per_file_from_linter: 1605/1605, path_shortener: 286/286, fixer: 286/286 
INFO [runner] processing took 129.820957ms with stages: exclude-rules: 61.4292ms, nolint: 30.920589ms, identifier_marker: 27.118054ms, path_prettifier: 4.379625ms, autogenerated_exclude: 2.771698ms, source_code: 1.112775ms, skip_dirs: 1.034831ms, max_same_issues: 392.828µs, uniq_by_line: 205.513µs, invalid_issue: 147.712µs, cgo: 125.257µs, filename_unadjuster: 75.152µs, path_shortener: 39.429µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 34.246µs, max_from_linter: 32.699µs, exclude: 300ns, fixer: 293ns, skip_files: 217ns, sort_results: 205ns, diff: 179ns, severity-rules: 78ns, path_prefixer: 77ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 8.31836299s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 8.188491451s 
INFO File cache stats: 617 entries of total size 1.7MiB 
INFO Memory: 92 samples, avg is 995.7MB, max is 1544.5MB 
INFO Execution took 9.058452268s                  
golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null  91,26s user 5,56s system 1059% cpu 9,137 total

[ldez]

🤔 Maybe this is only on darwin/arm64 but I don't understand why.

[ldez]

🤔 This reminds me of another issue: #5042 (comment)

[ldez]

I only have Linux computers, so I cannot try locally on macOS.

But inside our CI, we run golangci-lint on macOS (arm64) and there are no problems.
It's a CI, and so we don't have the same context as a local computer (no need for codesign or other macOS tools).

I also have "isolated" benchmarks that I launch on PRs (before merging them), and I only see performance improvements since v1.61.

So, my conclusions, based only on information you provided:

• either it's a problem with codesign or macOS tooling (my bet is on this one)
• or it is something only related to darwin/arm64 (but I don't think so)
• or something else 🤔

[pfouilloux]

Hi @ldez 👋 Thanks for checking on this 🙏

I've run the benchmarks again using the exact same list of linters as yours and seeing similar timings...
Having a look to see if I can isolate one linter that could explain the different behaviour 🙂

This is the delta between our linter lists

'<': The ones yours has but we don't have
'>': The ones we have but yours doesn't have

<     - bodyclose
<     - copyloopvar
      - depguard
      - dogsled
<     - dupl
      - errcheck
<     - errorlint
>     - exhaustive
<     - funlen
<     - gocheckcompilerdirectives
<     - gochecknoinits
<     - goconst
>     - gci
      - gocritic
>     - gofmt
>     - goimports
<     - gocyclo
<     - godox
<     - gosec
>     - gosimple
      - govet
<     - intrange
<     - ineffassign
<     - lll
>     - makezero
<     - mnd
<     - misspell
<     - nakedret
<     - noctx
<     - nolintlint
>     - predeclared
      - revive
>     - rowserrcheck
      - staticcheck
<     - testifylint
>     - testpackage
>     - tparallel
>     - typecheck
      - unconvert
<     - unparam
      - unused
<     - whitespace

v1.61.0 - golangci-lint repo - 7.86s

go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.24.1 darwin/arm64
golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 33 linters: [bodyclose copyloopvar depguard dogsled dupl errcheck errorlint funlen gocheckcompilerdirectives gochecknoinits goconst gocritic gocyclo godox goprintffuncname gosec gosimple govet ineffassign intrange lll misspell mnd nakedret noctx revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testifylint unconvert unparam unused whitespace] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (exports_file|files|types_sizes|compiled_files|deps|imports|name) took 571.880833ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 12.676167ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 2m28.123184355s with top 10 stages: SA5012: 2.103526545s, SA1030: 1.550736669s, SA5009: 1.531923629s, SA1000: 1.51965754s, SA4012: 1.510868129s, nilness: 1.501980879s, SA4015: 1.403049665s, SA1025: 1.394331919s, SA1032: 1.363516459s, SA1031: 1.362193334s 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 37429, after processing: 187 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): max_same_issues: 187/187, sort_results: 187/187, path_prettifier: 37422/37422, skip_files: 37422/37422, exclude-rules: 37422/37422, nolint: 37422/37422, uniq_by_line: 37422/187, max_per_file_from_linter: 187/187, cgo: 37429/37429, fixer: 187/187, severity-rules: 187/187, path_prefixer: 187/187, filename_unadjuster: 37429/37429, invalid_issue: 37429/37422, skip_dirs: 37422/37422, autogenerated_exclude: 37422/37422, identifier_marker: 37422/37422, source_code: 187/187, exclude: 37422/37422, diff: 187/187, max_from_linter: 187/187, path_shortener: 187/187 
INFO [runner] processing took 206.888545ms with stages: identifier_marker: 195.183084ms, path_prettifier: 7.737625ms, source_code: 818.458µs, uniq_by_line: 547.959µs, nolint: 491.376µs, skip_dirs: 446.791µs, filename_unadjuster: 358.292µs, autogenerated_exclude: 351.625µs, exclude-rules: 306.001µs, invalid_issue: 303.167µs, cgo: 294.167µs, sort_results: 35.75µs, path_shortener: 9.75µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 3.167µs, max_same_issues: 417ns, diff: 209ns, exclude: 208ns, skip_files: 167ns, fixer: 166ns, max_from_linter: 124ns, severity-rules: 42ns, path_prefixer: 0s 
INFO [runner] linters took 6.880710417s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 6.673732709s 
INFO File cache stats: 54 entries of total size 269.1KiB 
INFO Memory: 76 samples, avg is 1616.5MB, max is 2155.1MB 
INFO Execution took 7.472417042s                  

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Executed in    7.56 secs    fish           external
   usr time   18.93 secs   31.00 micros   18.93 secs
   sys time    6.02 secs  319.00 micros    6.02 secs

v1.64.7 - golangci-lint repo - 7.28s

❯ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.24.1 darwin/arm64
golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [goenv] Read go env for 5.3755ms: map[string]string{"GOCACHE":"/Users/pfx/Library/Caches/go-build", "GOROOT":"/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.24.1"} 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 33 linters: [bodyclose copyloopvar depguard dogsled dupl errcheck errorlint funlen gocheckcompilerdirectives gochecknoinits goconst gocritic gocyclo godox goprintffuncname gosec gosimple govet ineffassign intrange lll misspell mnd nakedret noctx revive rowserrcheck staticcheck testifylint unconvert unparam unused whitespace] 
INFO [loader] Using build tags: [integration]     
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (compiled_files|deps|exports_file|imports|name|files|types_sizes) took 580.272792ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 11.058792ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 1m39.363379372s with top 10 stages: buildir: 39.807083522s, the_only_name: 9.053051338s, dupl: 3.436968168s, fact_deprecated: 2.749493698s, unconvert: 2.718351003s, printf: 2.310162425s, inspect: 2.148501363s, ctrlflow: 1.782389607s, gosec: 1.575501238s, fact_purity: 1.339504269s 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Source: "(?i)^//\\$\\(which go\\)", Linters: "gocritic"] 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 1537, after processing: 376 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): filename_unadjuster: 1537/1537, exclusion_paths: 1537/1537, skip_files: 1537/1537, max_per_file_from_linter: 376/376, path_shortener: 376/376, severity-rules: 376/376, path_prettifier: 376/376, path_absoluter: 1537/1537, skip_dirs: 1537/1537, identifier_marker: 1452/1452, exclusion_rules: 1452/410, uniq_by_line: 386/376, source_code: 376/376, invalid_issue: 1537/1537, path_relativity: 1537/1537, generated_file_filter: 1537/1452, diff: 386/386, fixer: 386/386, max_same_issues: 376/376, sort_results: 376/376, cgo: 1537/1537, nolint_filter: 410/386, max_from_linter: 376/376 
INFO [runner] processing took 30.761003ms with stages: nolint_filter: 14.384541ms, exclusion_rules: 7.325917ms, generated_file_filter: 4.785708ms, source_code: 1.779625ms, skip_dirs: 837.043µs, sort_results: 747.417µs, path_relativity: 476.959µs, path_absoluter: 75.749µs, invalid_issue: 74.792µs, identifier_marker: 72.709µs, cgo: 62.375µs, uniq_by_line: 46.709µs, path_shortener: 41.167µs, filename_unadjuster: 29.083µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 10.292µs, path_prettifier: 8.875µs, max_same_issues: 626ns, exclusion_paths: 458ns, fixer: 251ns, diff: 250ns, max_from_linter: 208ns, severity-rules: 166ns, skip_files: 83ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 7.1824815s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 7.151627833s 
INFO File cache stats: 131 entries of total size 755.6KiB 
INFO Memory: 79 samples, avg is 859.8MB, max is 1338.8MB 
INFO Execution took 7.7811525s                    

________________________________________________________
Executed in    7.86 secs    fish           external
   usr time   44.03 secs   42.00 micros   44.03 secs
   sys time   17.63 secs  344.00 micros   17.63 secs

[pfouilloux]

I think goimports may have something to do with it. I'm not seeing any difference with any of the other linters, but there's a pretty big difference between 1.60.0 and 1.64.7 with only goimports in the enable: list...

Giving this a try on my linux box in a minute, will update with the results from there.

MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 / Apple M4 / 32 GB Ram

Test config A

version: "2"

linters:
  default: none
  enable:
    - goimports

v1.61.0 - golangci-lint repo - 6.65s

❯ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.24.1 darwin/arm64
golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 7 linters: [errcheck goimports gosimple govet ineffassign staticcheck unused] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (name|exports_file|imports|files|types_sizes|compiled_files|deps) took 604.128ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 11.701834ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 2m2.832765102s with top 10 stages: SA5012: 1.877350038s, SA4023: 1.532100367s, fact_purity: 1.40968675s, SA1027: 1.291329331s, SA4015: 1.289912794s, SA4018: 1.261239419s, typedness: 1.255473412s, SA1017: 1.253127748s, nilness: 1.223038242s, SA1028: 1.214394082s 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 23/26 issues with text "undefined: yaml" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 17/20 issues with text "undefined: gosec" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 9/12 issues with text "undefined: jsonschema" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 7/10 issues with text "object.Position undefined (type *jsonObject has no field or method Position)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 6/9 issues with text "could not import cmp (-: could not load export data: internal error in importing \"cmp\" (unsupported version: 2); please report an issue)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "m.Called undefined (type *MockLog has no field or method Called)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "s.EnabledTags undefined (type *settingsWrapper has no field or method EnabledTags)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "could not import unicode (-: could not load export data: internal error in importing \"unicode\" (unsupported version: 2); please report an issue)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "undefined: mapstructure" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
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INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 2/5 issues with text "m.On undefined (type *MockLog has no field or method On)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 1/4 issues with text "could not import unicode/utf8 (-: could not load export data: internal error in importing \"unicode/utf8\" (unsupported version: 2); please report an issue)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_from_linter] 47/97 issues from linter typecheck were hidden, use --max-issues-per-linter 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 32319, after processing: 50 
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INFO [runner] linters took 5.947397917s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 5.772640791s 
INFO File cache stats: 22 entries of total size 144.7KiB 
INFO Memory: 67 samples, avg is 1554.9MB, max is 2149.2MB 
INFO Execution took 6.569723334s                  

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v1.64.7 - golangci-lint repo - 10.65s

❯ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.24.1 darwin/arm64
golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [goenv] Read go env for 5.422ms: map[string]string{"GOCACHE":"/Users/pfx/Library/Caches/go-build", "GOROOT":"/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.24.1"} 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 7 linters: [errcheck goimports gosimple govet ineffassign staticcheck unused] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (imports|name|types_sizes|compiled_files|deps|exports_file|files) took 587.095541ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 12.353459ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 3m19.927937857s with top 10 stages: buildir: 1m1.031887799s, goimports: 17.244498663s, fact_deprecated: 3.954743988s, printf: 3.422072081s, ctrlflow: 3.133936631s, fact_purity: 2.102976501s, inspect: 2.017235005s, nilness: 1.91636379s, SA5012: 1.869335808s, S1038: 1.81310384s 
INFO [runner/exclusion_paths] Skipped 2 issues by pattern "internal/x" 
INFO [runner/exclusion_paths] Skipped 1 issues by pattern "pkg/goformatters/gci/internal" 
INFO [runner/exclusion_paths] Skipped 0 issues by pattern "pkg/goanalysis/runner_checker.go" 
INFO [runner/exclusion_paths] Skipped 1 issues by pattern "test/testdata_etc" 
INFO [runner/exclusion_paths] Skipped 26 issues by pattern "internal/go" 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Path: "(.+)_test\\.go", Linters: "dupl, mnd, lll"] 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Text: "(?i)rangeValCopy: each iteration copies 160 bytes \\(consider pointers or indexing\\)", Path: "pkg/golinters/unused/unused.go", Linters: "gocritic"] 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Text: "(?i)G115: integer overflow conversion uint64 -> int", Path: "test/bench/bench_test.go", Linters: "gosec"] 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Text: "(?i)G306: Expect WriteFile permissions to be 0600 or less", Path: "scripts/website/expand_templates/linters_test.go", Linters: "gosec"] 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Path: "pkg/commands/internal/migrate/two/", Linters: "lll"] 
INFO [runner/exclusion_rules] Skipped 0 issues by rules: [Path: "pkg/commands/internal/migrate/", Linters: "gocritic"] 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 46, after processing: 0 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): skip_dirs: 16/16, identifier_marker: 16/16, path_absoluter: 46/46, cgo: 46/46, filename_unadjuster: 46/46, invalid_issue: 46/46, exclusion_paths: 46/16, generated_file_filter: 16/16, exclusion_rules: 16/0, path_relativity: 46/46, skip_files: 16/16 
INFO [runner] processing took 350.747µs with stages: generated_file_filter: 141.084µs, exclusion_rules: 101.458µs, exclusion_paths: 33.916µs, skip_dirs: 32.709µs, path_relativity: 21.416µs, cgo: 8.25µs, invalid_issue: 4.542µs, path_absoluter: 2.292µs, filename_unadjuster: 2µs, identifier_marker: 791ns, nolint_filter: 583ns, max_same_issues: 416ns, fixer: 250ns, sort_results: 250ns, source_code: 125ns, skip_files: 125ns, path_prettifier: 125ns, diff: 124ns, max_from_linter: 84ns, uniq_by_line: 83ns, path_shortener: 82ns, severity-rules: 42ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 0s 
INFO [runner] linters took 9.966641375s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 9.966220417s 
INFO File cache stats: 0 entries of total size 0B 
INFO Memory: 107 samples, avg is 848.9MB, max is 1029.6MB 
INFO Execution took 10.572979459s                 

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Test config B

version: "2"

linters:
  default: none

v1.61.0 - golangci-lint repo - 6.64s

❯ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.24.1 darwin/arm64
golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.61.0 built with go1.23.1 from a1d6c560 on 2024-09-09T17:44:42Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 6 linters: [errcheck gosimple govet ineffassign staticcheck unused] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (types_sizes|deps|exports_file|imports|name|compiled_files|files) took 550.159792ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 13.082208ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 2m4.744267914s with top 10 stages: SA5012: 2.204753451s, SA4023: 1.595205583s, SA5010: 1.581180621s, SA2002: 1.514903629s, nilness: 1.418683582s, SA1017: 1.418178328s, SA1023: 1.412002793s, ctrlflow: 1.34987329s, fact_purity: 1.320230169s, SA9005: 1.30838217s 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 23/26 issues with text "undefined: yaml" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 17/20 issues with text "undefined: gosec" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 9/12 issues with text "undefined: jsonschema" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 7/10 issues with text "object.Position undefined (type *jsonObject has no field or method Position)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 6/9 issues with text "could not import cmp (-: could not load export data: internal error in importing \"cmp\" (unsupported version: 2); please report an issue)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "undefined: mapstructure" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "s.EnabledTags undefined (type *settingsWrapper has no field or method EnabledTags)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "m.Called undefined (type *MockLog has no field or method Called)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 4/7 issues with text "could not import unicode (-: could not load export data: internal error in importing \"unicode\" (unsupported version: 2); please report an issue)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 3/6 issues with text "s.DisabledTags undefined (type *settingsWrapper has no field or method DisabledTags)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 3/6 issues with text "s.EnabledChecks undefined (type *settingsWrapper has no field or method EnabledChecks)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 3/6 issues with text "s.DisabledChecks undefined (type *settingsWrapper has no field or method DisabledChecks)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 2/5 issues with text "m.On undefined (type *MockLog has no field or method On)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 1/4 issues with text "could not import unicode/utf8 (-: could not load export data: internal error in importing \"unicode/utf8\" (unsupported version: 2); please report an issue)" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner/max_from_linter] 47/97 issues from linter typecheck were hidden, use --max-issues-per-linter 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 32130, after processing: 50 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): filename_unadjuster: 32130/32130, identifier_marker: 32130/32130, exclude-rules: 32130/32130, severity-rules: 50/50, fixer: 50/50, skip_files: 32130/32130, diff: 187/187, max_per_file_from_linter: 187/187, path_shortener: 50/50, source_code: 50/50, invalid_issue: 32130/32130, skip_dirs: 32130/32130, uniq_by_line: 32130/187, max_same_issues: 187/97, nolint: 32130/32130, max_from_linter: 97/50, path_prefixer: 50/50, sort_results: 50/50, cgo: 32130/32130, path_prettifier: 32130/32130, autogenerated_exclude: 32130/32130, exclude: 32130/32130 
INFO [runner] processing took 177.730498ms with stages: identifier_marker: 166.141875ms, path_prettifier: 6.6305ms, uniq_by_line: 1.755917ms, source_code: 599.584µs, nolint: 512.792µs, exclude-rules: 463.832µs, filename_unadjuster: 297.291µs, skip_dirs: 280.584µs, invalid_issue: 266µs, autogenerated_exclude: 260.875µs, cgo: 249.625µs, max_same_issues: 229.375µs, max_from_linter: 20.041µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 14.375µs, path_shortener: 6.749µs, exclude: 250ns, sort_results: 250ns, fixer: 208ns, diff: 167ns, skip_files: 167ns, path_prefixer: 41ns, severity-rules: 0s 
INFO [runner] linters took 5.965255167s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 5.787400875s 
INFO File cache stats: 22 entries of total size 144.7KiB 
INFO Memory: 67 samples, avg is 1636.0MB, max is 2246.0MB 
INFO Execution took 6.5350595s                    

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v1.64.7 - golangci-lint repo - 5.54s

❯ go version && golangci-lint --version && golangci-lint cache clean && time golangci-lint run -v > /dev/null
go version go1.24.1 darwin/arm64
golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.64.7 built with go1.24.1 from 8cffdb7d on 2025-03-11T23:26:51Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/pfx/code/3-resources/golangci-lint /Users/pfx/code/3-resources /Users/pfx/code /Users/pfx /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml 
INFO [goenv] Read go env for 5.162416ms: map[string]string{"GOCACHE":"/Users/pfx/Library/Caches/go-build", "GOROOT":"/Users/pfx/.local/share/mise/installs/go/1.24.1"} 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 6 linters: [errcheck gosimple govet ineffassign staticcheck unused] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (types_sizes|compiled_files|deps|exports_file|files|imports|name) took 593.076458ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 10.419125ms 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 52.392973565s with top 10 stages: buildir: 29.74945343s, fact_deprecated: 2.930742527s, printf: 1.91228015s, ctrlflow: 1.808919918s, inspect: 1.449317283s, nilness: 1.164695399s, fact_purity: 1.125672812s, SA5012: 778.303666ms, typedness: 757.09658ms, unused: 375.881122ms 
INFO [runner/max_same_issues] 2/5 issues with text "Error return value of `f.Truncate` is not checked" were hidden, use --max-same-issues 
INFO [runner] Issues before processing: 46, after processing: 15 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): invalid_issue: 46/46, uniq_by_line: 17/17, max_same_issues: 17/15, source_code: 15/15, sort_results: 15/15, filename_unadjuster: 46/46, skip_files: 46/46, skip_dirs: 46/46, identifier_marker: 46/46, nolint_filter: 17/17, diff: 17/17, max_from_linter: 15/15, path_shortener: 15/15, path_absoluter: 46/46, path_relativity: 46/46, exclusion_paths: 46/46, generated_file_filter: 46/46, fixer: 17/17, severity-rules: 15/15, path_prettifier: 15/15, cgo: 46/46, exclusion_rules: 46/17, max_per_file_from_linter: 17/17 
INFO [runner] processing took 1.648167ms with stages: nolint_filter: 863.625µs, exclusion_rules: 328.542µs, generated_file_filter: 250.666µs, source_code: 92.167µs, skip_dirs: 60.709µs, path_relativity: 18.334µs, identifier_marker: 11.666µs, max_same_issues: 8.876µs, uniq_by_line: 2.749µs, invalid_issue: 2.208µs, cgo: 1.708µs, max_from_linter: 1.542µs, path_absoluter: 1.333µs, path_shortener: 1.124µs, max_per_file_from_linter: 834ns, filename_unadjuster: 833ns, path_prettifier: 334ns, sort_results: 291ns, fixer: 250ns, exclusion_paths: 167ns, severity-rules: 84ns, skip_files: 83ns, diff: 42ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 4.845374041s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 4.843692125s 
INFO File cache stats: 8 entries of total size 45.1KiB 
INFO Memory: 56 samples, avg is 764.9MB, max is 1094.8MB 
INFO Execution took 5.455414834s                  

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[ldez]

You are using the configuration of golangci-lint v2 with golangci-lint v1, this doesn't work.

Can you run your tests with the right configuration and against the v1 branch (master)