hi,
thanks richard, this is perfect i could not have asked for more. -Steve On 20 Sep 2019, at 9:43 am, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> Only lightly tested. > > In a sense, plan9/arm go is tested as well as any other platform: > under the go continuous development process, every time a change > is made to the compiler or runtime library, a complete test suite > is run on builder machines for every supported architecture and > operating system. If you look at https://build.golang.org and > scroll wayyyyyyyy over to the right, the plan9/arm column refers > to a set of Raspberry Pi machines run by David du Columbier and me. > > In another sense, it's probably not very well tested at all: > I'm not aware of any production application being run on go in > Plan 9, on any machine architecture. I haven't used go seriously > myself, but I find the test suite gives the OS such a brutal workout > (especially with small physical memory) that it's a good way > to flush out underlying Plan 9 bugs. > > The tests show some intermittent hard-to-reproduce failures ("flakes") > on all the Plan 9 builders. Many are timing issues because the tests > make assumptions about absolute speed of builder machines; but there > are some "can't happen" panics during garbage collection which smell > like a cache or memory barrier problem. Please don't use plan9/arm > go to run your nuclear power plant just yet ... >
