Go 1.8 released
The Go team has announced the
release of Go 1.8. "
The compiler back end introduced in Go 1.7 for 64-bit x86 is now used on all architectures, and those architectures should see significant performance improvements. For instance, the CPU time required by our benchmark programs was reduced by 20-30% on 32-bit ARM systems. There are also some modest performance improvements in this release for 64-bit x86 systems. The compiler and linker have been made faster. Compile times should be improved by about 15% over Go 1.7. There is still more work to be done in this area: expect faster compilation speeds in future releases." See the release notes for more details.
Posted Mar 3, 2017 20:05 UTC (Fri)
by yanfali (subscriber, #2949)
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Go 1.8 released
If using third party libraries that depend on atomic, one should be aware that this fix didn't make it into 1.8.