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   by aclements 11mo ago

   Thanks for this question! We added a couple sentences to the blog post to explain what a page is. In general, a page is a region of memory that has a large-ish fixed power-of-two size and is also aligned to its size. Virtual memory structur
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   by aclements 11mo ago

   I'm a long-time fan of matcha and wrote the initial prototype that demonstrated Green Tea was viable while cafe crawling in Yokohama and drinking lots of matcha. "Matcha" didn't seem like a great name for a garbage colle
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   by aclements 10y ago

   "So it records the calling convention, architecture flags, alignment, and other ABI pieces etc?" No. At the moment it records the AST in the object file, because the inliner works at the Go AST level. In the future it may instead
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   by aclements 10y ago

   Go already performs cross-package inlining, so it can already inline library calls. (This is relatively easy to do in Go compared to other languages because packages must form a DAG. Compiling package A writes out enough information in the
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   by aclements 10y ago

   We plan to expose all of the inlining information in the DWARF tables so debuggers won't have any problems with this. Internally, the runtime uses a different representation just so we can make it more compact and optimized for the run