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Because Go doesn't do very much optimization. They've been fighting back performance regressions every time they try to improve the performance of the resulting binaries.

https://dave.cheney.net/2016/11/19/go-1-8-toolchain-improvem...



Neither does clang, gcc or rustc unless you explicitly tell it to. I was talking about a normal development session. Why would I make compilation time worse by making optimized builds?




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