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by exacube 1835 days ago
My favorite part:

Go 1.17 implements a new way of passing function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack. This work is enabled for Linux, MacOS, and Windows on the 64-bit x86 architecture... For a representative set of Go packages and programs, benchmarking has shown performance improvements of about 5%, and a typical reduction in binary size of about 2%.

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Just buried in the middle of the release notes: Oh, your code's 5% faster.