Thanks On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 6:37:10 AM UTC+8 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 6:31 AM Lanzhiguan Huang > <huangla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In gc's implementation, the itab struct has an interface type and an > object type field and a method table, while in the GoLLVM's implementation, > the type descriptor was moved to the first field of the method table. I > think they just maintain the same information but do not understand the > purposes of the design. Currently the difference may cause incompatibility > between the two compilers. > > There is no safe way for Go code to ever see these structures, so the > difference should not matter to any ordinary Go programs. > > At this point I don't think there is any deep reason for the slightly > different design. Historically it was because the gc implementation > used a runtime cache, but these days the gofrontend implementation > used by GoLLVM also uses a runtime cache. > > Ian > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/1c141a39-1cfb-484a-a61f-03becd8ed590n%40googlegroups.com.
