Go 1.6 is Released

Re:Go 1.6 is Released by robbles on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:55PM (#11122226)

There was some discussion leading up to the release about whether to merge the "SSA" branch, which seems to be a refactor that allows for easier compile time optimisations but also slows compile times for the time being.

Does anyone know if that was included in this release?

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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by zenlikethat on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:32PM (#11122454)

IIRC from the e-mail thread, the idea being discussed was to potentially merge the SSA branch immediately after the release (in order to have as much time as possible to test it), so I'd be surprised to find it in this release. There were concerns about the compiler slowdown but I didn't see the end result of the thread.

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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by dsymonds on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @07:29PM (#11122752)

The SSA changes are not in Go 1.6. They're expected to be in Go 1.7.

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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by nathany on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:32PM (#11122452)

The SSA branch is for a future version of Go, possibly Go 1.7.

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