A Big Golang Update Lands In GCC 8.0

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That and GCC has a lot more possible compiler options / knobs to twiddle. could get some decent performance / binary size differences

I'm not familiar with the inner working of GCC. Does the mere existence of knobs/options mean they automatically work for Go?

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I'm not familiar with the inner working of GCC. Does the mere existence of knobs/options mean they automatically work for Go?

I have no idea tbh - My thought process was that gccgo is a front end, so it takes the golang and turns it into an IR. from there the IR is turned into code that runs on the CPU - so lots of optimisations could happen along the way, the main one for go would be dead code elimination