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Re:Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released by bradfitz on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:06PM (#17576208)
The Go linker does dead code elimination already.
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Re:Go 1.11 Beta 2 is Released by candiodari on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:32PM (#17582530)
Dead code elimination can happen in many places. In Go, for instance, an obvious one would be to eliminate most type info for types which will never be queried for introspection.

No linker will ever do that.

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