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I wonder if a "release" build flag makes sense for go. There is so much optimisation potential left on the table for the sake of build time. The current build

• tgv 3y ago
  Not bad, but build should default to release, and dev builds should be opt-in. You should never accidentally test against a non-production build.
  • packetlost 3y ago
    It's a tough problem, because the situations in which fast build times matter are mostly during local development and test. Only at really insane scales do they become a problem for production releasing and CI/automated testing. An environment variable that can be set on a dev workstation globally (and overridden with CLI flags) would probably be sufficient for opt-in