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ainar-g on Oct 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Proposal: Go 2 transition

Go doesn't have a stable ABI, AFAIK, so what (probably) actually going to happen is that the same Go 2 compiler will compile both Go 1 and Go 2 packages using the same runtime.

Jabbles on Oct 27, 2018 [–]

But that would prevent the Go 2 compiler from using the given improvement to the runtime (i.e. moving GC).

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