[kazinator]

Did you know where every page fault would happen, and manually check every memory access and fix the situation?

You didn't have to because there is an precise, robust non-checked exception handling system which takes care of that: the hardware catches the situation, dispatches a handler in the operating system which fixes it and re-starts your program at the original machine instruction to try the memory access again.

[mikeschinkel]

You do not have to be precise in Go either, and you don't have to know all the faults. All you have to know if where a return value that implements the interface `error` is not nil.