major performance improvements in range GETs to avoid large
read amplification when ranges are tiny and random
```
-------------------
Operation: GET
Operations: 142014 -> 339421
Duration: 4m50s -> 4m56s
* Average: +139.41% (+1177.3 MiB/s) throughput, +139.11% (+658.4) obj/s
* Fastest: +125.24% (+1207.4 MiB/s) throughput, +132.32% (+612.9) obj/s
* 50% Median: +139.06% (+1175.7 MiB/s) throughput, +133.46% (+660.9) obj/s
* Slowest: +203.40% (+1267.9 MiB/s) throughput, +198.59% (+753.5) obj/s
```
TTFB from 10MiB BlockSize
```
* First Access TTFB: Avg: 81ms, Median: 61ms, Best: 20ms, Worst: 2.056s
```
TTFB from 1MiB BlockSize
```
* First Access TTFB: Avg: 22ms, Median: 21ms, Best: 8ms, Worst: 91ms
```
Full object reads however do see a slight change which won't be
noticeable in real world, so not doing any comparisons
TTFB still had improvements with full object reads with 1MiB
```
* First Access TTFB: Avg: 68ms, Median: 35ms, Best: 11ms, Worst: 1.16s
```
v/s
TTFB with 10MiB
```
* First Access TTFB: Avg: 388ms, Median: 98ms, Best: 20ms, Worst: 4.156s
```
This change should affect all new uploads, previous uploads should
continue to work with business as usual. But dramatic improvements can
be seen with these changes.
Simplify the cmd/http package overall by removing
custom plain text v/s tls connection detection, by
migrating to go1.12 and choose minimum version
to be go1.12
Also remove all the vendored deps, since they
are not useful anymore.
Since go1.8 GOPATH is not required to set prior, as
it defaults to "${HOME}/go" we only need to check if
go tool detected GOPATH correctly. If yes then we
proceed if not we fail.
Update the check_minimum_version function to use numeric comparison (not
string comparison) on components of version numbers. Fixes the following
output:
```
$ make
Checking deps:
ERROR
OSX version '10.11.6' not supported.
Minimum supported version: 10.8
make: *** [checks] Error 1
```
Golang 1.6 is default version for the build now.
Additionally set 'GODEBUG=cgocheck=0' for now, until
we fix the erasure coding package.
Readmore here https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.6#cgo