Go is often praised for its fast build times.
While they are pretty quick, they are slow enough that I spend a lot of time waiting for them, enough that it prompted me to go down the rabbit hole of thoroughly analyzing them.
This post covers all aspects of…

We’re starting a project to overhaul the inlining optimization pass in the Go compiler, with the goal of having a far more effective inliner in Go 1.22. This issue will track this work. This docume...

After almost a decade, I have finally implemented #8898, special-casing the channels used for timers (or maybe the timers used for channels) so that the timers are not in the timer heap when there ...

A high-performance, thread-safe generic concurrent hash map implementation with Swiss Map. - mhmtszr/concurrent-swiss-map

I've been experimenting with alternate encodings for the PCDATA tables, with the goal of significantly improving decode speed, at possibly a slight increase in binary size. @mknyszek, @dr2chase...

Here is a Go function, if_max(). It finds the max value of an array of integers. Simple enough:

The MarshalText and MarshalBinary methods are a trash factory. They create a short-lived string that is almost always garbage collectable shortly after creation. Furthermore, the caller almost alwa...

Tl;Dr Cgo calls take about 40ns, about the same time encoding/json takes to parse a single digit integer. On my 20 core machine Cgo call performance scales with core count up to about 16 cores, after which some known contention issues slow things down.
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Proposal: unique package Updated: 10 April 2024 Oct 4th EDIT: Changed package name from "intern" to "unique" and renamed "Symbol" to "Handle" based on feedba...