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GopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike

Rob Pike's GopherCon 2016 talk on the design of the Go assembler, explaining why Go uses a common assembly language translated to each architecture.

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Have you looked at the Go toolchain at all? I don't know much about it, but they implemented their back ends in a manner that is much smaller than LLVM and GCC. And it sounds like the architecture of the compiler is significantly different. I …
chubot on Hacker News · 2017-02
In Show HN: How to write a tiny compiler
Here's a good talk about the Go assembler backend: [VIDEO] Spoiler: they're nearly to the point (maybe now they've achieved it fully) of autogenerating a new language backend from ISA documentation PDFs! Bring that up next time someone complains about Go not using LLVM.
bkeroack on Hacker News · 2017-04
In A Foray into Go Assembly Programming
This is relevant [VIDEO] Its Rob Pike talking about the go assembler and he answers a few of your questions.
fourseventy on Hacker News · 2017-09
In Go Assembly by Example

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