[go-nuts] Re: Go 1.9 Beta 2 is released

2017-06-30 Thread Parker Evans
It is certainly a micro-benchmark. I just wanted to ask in case it was expected since I use golang on ARM based embedded systems a lot and they tend to be sensitive to binary size. In the tests, my binary is stripped (-ldflags="-w -s"), so I wouldn't think the size difference is related to th

[go-nuts] Re: Go 1.9 Beta 2 is released

2017-06-29 Thread alb . donizetti
But if you have other numbers please share them, it'll certainly interesing to see them. Il giorno giovedì 29 giugno 2017 13:38:18 UTC+2, Parker Evans ha scritto: > > Congratulations on the Beta 2 release, pretty excited to test it out. > Lots of interesting updates! > > I did notice one thing w

[go-nuts] Re: Go 1.9 Beta 2 is released

2017-06-29 Thread alb . donizetti
Unstripped "hello world"s are ~20% bigger on my Linux system too, but it seems like the loss is much smaller on real programs, e.g. see Brad comment here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853#issuecomment-307155309 A. Il giorno giovedì 29 giugno 2017 13:38:18 UTC+2, Parker Evans ha scritto

[go-nuts] Re: Go 1.9 Beta 2 is released

2017-06-29 Thread Parker Evans
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 be