There is a complete list of passes here[0]. It does some optimizations but much less than a mainstream C or C++ compiler. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/blob

There is a complete list of passes here[0]. It does some optimizations but much less than a mainstream C or C++ compiler. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/internal/ssa/compile.go#L397 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...