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Go 1.22 Release Notes(draft) (tip.golang.org)
31 points by nanmu42 915 days ago
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what is going to be the impact in terms of performance of allocating a new variable for each iteration of the loop ?

Is the compiler smart enough to only do this when it's needed ?

It will try to do this, but certainly unable to do this for all cases, such as

    func foo(constFunc func(*[100000]int)) {
     for a, i := [100000]int{}, 0; i < len(a); i++ {
      constFunc(&a)
     }
    }
in which, the big array a will be duplicated at each step.

Performance downgrade is just one problem, the most serious problem is it will break some code, such as https://gotipplay.golang.org/p/srBxORL4bm__b. The code outputs differently with 1.22 and 1.22-.

The compiler will avoid unnecessary allocations when possible. For more details, see https://go.dev/wiki/LoopvarExperiment#will-the-change-make-p...