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Re:Go 1.7 is released by sdegutis on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:56PM (#12294491)
Cool. What's the plan for Go 8? What exciting features are up ahead?
Re:Go 1.7 is released by bradfitz on Monday August 15, 2016 @08:00PM (#12294514)
SSA for all architectures, then delete the old compiler backend and optimize the frontend which can then assume an SSA backend and do less work. (Currently the frontend assumes a less-capable backend so has to do more work, which actually makes SSA slower)
Re:Go 1.7 is released by nathany on Monday August 15, 2016 @08:28PM (#12294645)
You can read through this thread to see what people want to work on for Go 1.8.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/098vr4999...