On Monday, 17 October 2016 09:15:33 UTC-4, Axel Wagner wrote: > > However, the compiler might be clever enough to optimize that out with > inlining and escape analysis. And indeed, I'm failing to trigger the > behavior with any simple testcase. So I might be wrong here. Would be > interested in an experts explanation as to if that reasoning is > systematically broken :) > The compiler is unlikely to be able to optimize the call because ioutil.devNull is always called indirectly through an io.Writer interface. (If you knew statically you were calling devNull.Write, why make the call?) But relative to the cost of making the dynamic call, the additional cost of passing a single integer parameter is very small---probably only a few percent.
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