One of the focuses with Go's compilation design was trying to avoid all the extra work that happens in C compilation that could be avoided by some careful langu

One of the focuses with Go's compilation design was trying to avoid all the extra work that happens in C compilation that could be avoided by some careful language design. There's a good write up here: https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article, but particularly starting at point 5 on that page.