Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes
by AsyncAwait on Thursday February 16, 2017 @04:56PM
(#13663880)
> Compilation time improving but still not close to 1.4.
It's worth noting that this is mostly the result of an automatic translation from C to Go, which made the compiler slower, but also a lot more accessible to outside contributions.
Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes
by _ph_ on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:25PM
(#13664149)
And also, that in the meantime, the compiler got much better at analyzing and optimizing the program. So the compiler got faster and better. So while it is still slower than 1.4, it does produce better code.
It's worth noting that this is mostly the result of an automatic translation from C to Go, which made the compiler slower, but also a lot more accessible to outside contributions.