Go strongly favors a fast compilation over performance gain, which influenced both the language design and implementation. For example, Daniel Lemire pointed ou

Go strongly favors a fast compilation over performance gain, which influenced both the language design and implementation. For example, Daniel Lemire pointed out that its inlining strategy is very conservative [1]; inlining unlocks tons of optimization possibilities but also can dramatically affect the compilation time, which is probably why Go did so. [1] https://lemire.me/blog/2020/06/04/the-go-compiler-needs-to-be-smarter/ https://lemire.me/blog/2020/06/04/the-go-compiler-needs-to-b...