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From the document itself: "Despite Go’s simplicity, there are many subtle cases in the optimizations and other rewrites performed by the compilers, and it would
by heydenberk 13y ago
From the document itself: "Despite Go’s simplicity, there are many subtle cases in the optimizations and other rewrites performed by the compilers, and it would be foolish to throw away the 10 or so man-years of effort that have gone into them."
- twic 13y agoThis strikes me as dubious. Rewriting from scratch would throw away the C code, but it would not have to throw away the lessons learned from and recorded in the C code.