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Looking good. I always thought something like this would be LLVM based, this is surprising.
by michaelneale 17y ago
Looking good. I always thought something like this would be LLVM based, this is surprising.
- 9oliYQjP 17y agoThey said in the FAQ that they "felt" LLVM was "too large" and "too slow". I would have liked to see this statement backed up with data.
- nikils 17y agolink to Ken Thompson's previous c-compiler paper http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/compiler http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/compiler search for 'Performance'
- michaelneale 17y agoYes I saw that (and took their word for it). It is interesting that they seem to deeply care about compile time speed (I guess given Go is a fresh start in so many ways, people thought it would be nice to have super fast compiles for quick turn around and testing).