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It’s so tests don’t rely on behavior that may change. See this commit message for a full explanation: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6269dcdc24d74379d8a609ce...

comment by ancarda · 2018-08-16 · in What else is in Go 1.11?

It is not covered here: - WebAssembly and Modules have already been covered. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules

comment by stplsd · 2018-08-16 · in What else is in Go 1.11?

To get a test of what's actually in the release candidate check out https://github.com/golang/go/milestone/62 A lot of new stuff with the new go modules work including vgo and some interesting wasm work.

comment by kjeetgill · 2018-08-14 · in Go 1.11 Rc1 released

…I opened the original issue in question due to lack of feature parity and it got quickly closed ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610#event-1753880630 ). Then after some twitter back-and-forth ( https://twitter.com/sgnn7/status/102254…

comment by sgnnseven · 2018-08-12 · in 'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added

Here’s the issue it comes out of: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610

comment by llimllib · 2018-08-11 · in 'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added

This can be viewed with JS disabled: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7aa9855704a766a1a16fbed7...

comment by jwilk · 2018-08-11 · in 'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added

go mod started out with a bunch of flags, and was only later converted to the current syntax: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6121987a10b2c54bc4c48473... From the commit message: > We've avoided subcommands in the go command to date,…

comment by secure · 2018-08-11 · in 'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added

If you mean ChaCha20-Poly1305, looks like performance improvements may land in Go 1.12: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22809 ChaCha can be accelerated with generic SIMD instructions on any arch that supports them. Personally I think…

comment by nemo1618 · 2018-08-09 · in Go 1.11beta3 is in average 11x faster for crypto/tls benchmarks on ARM64

I believe Go initially had a conservative collector for the stack and switched to precise: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5134

comment by munificent · 2018-08-06 · in Implementing a JIT-compiler with Rust

there are blogposts here detailing some use cases and experiences: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers#united-states

comment by dcu · 2018-08-04 · in Go 1.11 Beta 3 is released

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Golang's filepath is broken for symlinks

story by Adracus · 2018-08-03 · 0 comments

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Go 1.11 will add preliminary support for versioned modules

story by mfrw · 2018-08-01 · 0 comments

…API. Go only supports constant time arithmetic for a few specific curves (also not secp256k1). 0. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20654

comment by tuxxy · 2018-08-01 · in Show HN: GoUmbral – ECC arithmetic layer, and soon-to-be proxy re-encryption lib

…solicits feedback, and designs are often adjusted in light of that feedback. Consider type aliases: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18130 Its also an example of the proposal process which is PEP like. That said, changes like this are…

comment by cdoxsey · 2018-07-28 · in A response about dep and vgo

There has been some discussion about a pluggable TLS stack: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21753

comment by helper · 2018-07-27 · in A response about dep and vgo

…Maybe so. My mistake. It personally made me think of this issue / PR in the Go issue tracker, https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20654 , about support for constant time arithmetic with bigints. Currently, operations on bigints in Go may…

comment by Confiks · 2018-07-27 · in A response about dep and vgo

People really seem to dislike context in the standard library too: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20280

comment by gant · 2018-07-25 · in Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud

…apps sometimes think that they know better, and get broken. Anything written in Go, for example: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16272

comment by int_19h · 2018-07-25 · in Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)

…Versioned, packaged, signed dependencies and thus repeatable build artifacts is the point. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301

comment by topspin · 2018-07-25 · in Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)

Google too hard these days? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292

comment by kxukfoldld · 2018-07-20 · in Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released

…about 3k LOC of platform specific, low level (syscall) and error-prone code with 10 lines. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9661

comment by Kubuxu · 2018-07-20 · in Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released

…now? I find it weird that 3 years later working with xml namespaces is still troublesome - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13400#issuecomment-16245...

comment by glenndebacker · 2018-07-20 · in Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released

…It just uses another stack, dedicated to cgo, and disallows passing pointers into the stack: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11089 So I think the slowness is caused by something else. Thanks for sharing the benchmark.

comment by ngrilly · 2018-07-19 · in Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

…some stuff for hazy reasons. this github issue has a lot of interesting discussion of go ffi: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16051 these benchmarks https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead seem to show that a c call via cgo will be about…

comment by dilap · 2018-07-18 · in Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

…situations, like indirect calls [1], cause objects to be spilled to the heap unconditionally. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/964639cc338db650ccadeafb74...

comment by pcwalton · 2018-07-17 · in Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

…this is true! My understanding is, the string itself is on the stack, but the data is on the heap https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2f2e8f9c81d899d8eefb1f2f98... Likewise, the "double pointer" of an interface is on the stack, but points to…

comment by steveklabnik · 2018-07-17 · in Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

…a gargantuan cpp file. I know LLVM has it somewhat pluggable. We can see a lot of Go GC's work at https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/mgc.go but at quick glance, I couldn't see how I could plug in an alternative impl.…

comment by kodablah · 2018-07-17 · in Getting to Go: Garbage collection and runtime issues

…at all. [0]: https://golang.org/doc/faq#get_version [1]: https://research.swtch.com/go2017 [2]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17271

comment by benesch · 2018-07-15 · in Taking Go modules for a spin

…are either smoothed, or officially recognised as "works as intended", with viable workarounds. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+l...

comment by ainar-g · 2018-07-15 · in Taking Go modules for a spin

…vendoring support with vgo[2], where you use git tags for versions. 1. https://glide.sh/ 2. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools

comment by stephenwithav · 2018-07-14 · in Ask HN: What is the current state of web frameworks in Golang?

…for using go webassembly for this use case. I filed an issue for performance hit. It seems high https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26277

comment by keepingscore · 2018-07-09 · in Example node http server powered by a golang webassembly module

…proposal: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/24301-... Github tracking issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301 Official wasm design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/131vjr4DH6JFnb-blm_uR...

comment by ssutch3 · 2018-06-26 · in Go 1.11 Beta 1 is released

See https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/compile and https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...

comment by valyala · 2018-06-23 · in Performance patches in Go 1.11

this? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/25936

comment by tapirl · 2018-06-22 · in Performance patches in Go 1.11

Efficient access to thread-local data, maybe. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8884

comment by tgragnato · 2018-06-21 · in Linux: Introduce restartable sequences system call

He fixed it in Go: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c90d392ce3d3203e0c32b3f9...

comment by mseepgood · 2018-06-20 · in Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs

Look at the aeshash in the go runtime: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/asm_amd...

comment by injinj · 2018-06-18 · in Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot

…the performance cost of calling through an interface would be negligible, but I'm wrong about that: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20116 The issues linked at the end there are interesting reads, and maybe they'll do something about…

comment by ereyes01 · 2018-06-12 · in Show HN: Fo: An experimental language which adds generics on top of Go

There was also another language called Go beforehand: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

comment by jwilk · 2018-06-11 · in Open-sourcing Sonar, a new extensible debugging tool

…base Java calls as Go calls, but that became tedious too. 0 - https://github.com/cretz/goahead 1 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18602

comment by kodablah · 2018-06-11 · in Using GraalVM to Run Native Java in AWS Lambda with Golang

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Proposal: use PCG Source in math/rand for Go 2

story by tosh · 2018-06-11 · 0 comments

Rob Pike is discussing Go’s math/rand update to PCG for Go2 at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21835

comment by nnx · 2018-06-11 · in PCG: a family of better random number generators

…there's a fundamental problem with it, otherwise they wouldn't have created dep and vgo [1] [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301

comment by allover · 2018-06-06 · in Things I Regret About Node.js [video]

Looking at the thumbs up and the comments, the community seems very favorable at vgo. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301 edit: and everybody was not agree at the time of Dep launch as it was not simple as Go use to be.

comment by kaeshiwaza · 2018-05-30 · in The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?

The concerns haven't been addressed. Sam's latest comment for context: - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301#issuecomment-39254...

comment by TheSwordsman · 2018-05-30 · in The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?

…to time[1] because Go doesn't want to link to libc but still wants to benefit from vdso[2]. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16606 [1] https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/ [2]…

comment by masklinn · 2018-05-27 · in Comparing the C FFI overhead in various programming languages

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Proposal for Go2: Disallow imports of external packages in library packages

story by mark_edward · 2018-05-27 · 0 comments

…those issue will be fixed someday, I will gladly continue to use it even with those issues. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/InterfaceSlice

comment by JepZ · 2018-05-26 · in Go Is a Shop-built Jig (2014)

…mean too much to me. In general, I'm just finding these posts have little value to me anymore. 0 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20982

comment by kodablah · 2018-05-26 · in Go Is a Shop-built Jig (2014)

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Go2 – golang/go Wiki

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