Here are the slides for the talk: https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide#39 https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide#39 The particular slide linked above answ

Here are the slides for the talk: https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide#39 https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide#39 The particular slide linked above answers the question "what are the advantages of having their own assembler." Turns out, they'll be able to abstract away the differences across the different manufacturers' assemblers to where they can just feed in the PDFs to be able to support that platform.