It’s in its early stages but if I understand my conversations with Ian correctly, he says this is already available for the stdlib. I agree that dynamically linking to the runtime is more difficult but given some restrictions it might work.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 28, 2018, at 1:01 PM, Scott Cotton <w...@iri-labs.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sunday, 28 October 2018 15:31:54 UTC+1, Robert Engels wrote: >> To clarify, think of the performance improvements in the GC in Go from 1.1 >> to 1.11. Amazing. But you only get these via recompiling which is a barrier. >> Many java installations frequently get performance improvements with no code >> changes or recompilation. This is why I’ve been investigating packaging Go >> binaries with dynamic linkage to the runtime and stdlib. > > In what sense are you or have you been investigating? > > The things I see which are blockers to this are > 1. The compiler/runtime are intimately linked, and free to evolve over time. > So the runtime API to the compiled code isn't even fixed in a way that > dynamic-linking would work across versions. > 2. The runtime itself manages stacks, so there would need to be some > assumptions about operating context when it could be linked. For example, if > it were linked while the stack is high/deep, then where would the runtime put > the stack? where would the runtime system stack be placed? > > It's very different than applying a runtime to byte code. > > Scott > >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Oct 28, 2018, at 9:23 AM, Robert Engels <ren...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> > >> > Cool. Not sure why the JVM is not applicable to the discussion as it >> > normally ensures binary compatibility as languages evolve. >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> >>> On Oct 28, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Gerald Henriksen <ghen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:33:32 -0500, you wrote: >> >>> >> >>> What exactly are you referring to? I wasn’t aware of Android no longer >> >>> being Java. >> >> >> >> At Google I/O 2017 the Android team announced that Kotlin would be >> >> supported as a first class language along with Java, including full >> >> support in Android Studio. >> >> >> >> While Android will likely never get rid of its Java base, developers >> >> have been switching to Kotlin due to the advantages it offers over >> >> Java. Kotlin offers cleaner, easier to understand code without all >> >> the verbosity that Java forces. >> >> >> >>> But also when I say java am referring to the JVM technology as well, so >> >>> add in all of the JVM languages and it’s even more lopsided. >> >> >> >> The JVM is not relevant to a discussion about languages. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- >> > 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...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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. -- 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.
