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Split stacks are no longer used, as of Go 1.3 (2014).

• bm1362 9y ago
  Off topic: is it possible to build a JIT compiler for Go or does the runtime prevent that?
  • mappu 9y ago
    I think it's certainly possible. The Go compiler is AOT and there are Go interpreters (in various stages of completeness), it would be a matter of interpreting the application - finding hot functions in execution traces - and swapping them out with background-compiled versions. Some work would be needed to keep the GC happy between interpreted and compiled functions, but no more complex than JS JITs have to do. Go's GC at least already has the capability to move objects, that's a help. In reality, JITs are used to infer typing information that dynamic languages only discover at runtime. Go doesn't have this problem, and an AOT can probably discover stronger optimizations.
    • sbinet 9y ago
      there's actually (the beginning of) an interpreter in Go, for Go, that consummes wasm :) https://github.com/go-interpreter/wagon https://github.com/go-interpreter/wagon
  • pjmlp 9y ago
    Any language can have a JIT compiler, that is just an implementation detail.