Congratulations on the Beta 2 release, pretty excited to test it out. Lots of interesting updates!
I did notice one thing when I was playing around with Beta 1 and now Beta 2 that I wanted to ask about. Is it expected that binary size would increase in this release? A toy example that has been somewhat of a benchmark in previous releases is the simple hello world program: package main import ( "fmt" ) func main() { fmt.Println("Hello world!") } It seems like this program, when compiled with options to strip debugging information has grown about 20% in size when compiled natively for macOS: go version go1.8.3 darwin/amd64 $ go build -ldflags="-w -s" $ ls -l total 2320 -rw-r--r-- 1 Parker staff 79 Jun 16 18:47 main.go -rwxr-xr-x 1 Parker staff 1181728 Jun 29 07:24 test go version devel +eab99a8 Mon Jun 26 21:12:22 2017 +0000 darwin/amd64 $ go build -ldflags="-w -s" $ ls -l total 2792 -rw-r--r-- 1 Parker staff 79 Jun 16 18:47 main.go -rwxr-xr-x 1 Parker staff 1424992 Jun 29 07:11 test Anyone have any insight on whether this is expected and if a similar increase should be expected across the board in this release? Thanks, Parker On Monday, June 26, 2017 at 6:11:46 PM UTC-4, Chris Broadfoot wrote: > > Hello gophers, > > We have just released go1.9beta2, a beta version of Go 1.9. > It is cut from the master branch at the revision tagged go1.9beta2. > > There are no known problems or regressions. > Please try running production load tests and your unit tests with the new > version. > Your help testing these pre-release versions is invaluable. > > Report any problems using the issue tracker: > https://golang.org/issue/new > > If you have Go installed already, the easiest way to try go1.9beta2 > is by using this tool: > https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/version/go1.9beta2 > > You can download binary and source distributions from the usual place: > https://golang.org/dl/#go1.9beta2 > > To find out what has changed in Go 1.9, read the draft release notes: > https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.9 > > Documentation for Go 1.9 is available at: > https://tip.golang.org/ > > Cheers, > Chris > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.