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A comment on Go 1.7 toolchain improvements. Parent comment

Re:Go 1.7 toolchain improvements by misframer on Saturday April 02, 2016 @12:11PM (#11412030)
There are still many things to optimize. One of the reasons to rewrite the compiler in Go was to make it easier to profile. The generics issue considers best-case compiler performance.
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Re:Go 1.7 toolchain improvements by sievebrain on Saturday April 02, 2016 @02:16PM (#11412576)
Why would being written in Go make anything easier to profile?
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Re:Go 1.7 toolchain improvements by wfsfw4w44 on Saturday April 02, 2016 @06:27PM (#11413822)
by being able to use the go toolchain on the go source itself (it was previously in C)
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