To add to what Ian mentioned: Many of the measures outlined in https://golang.org/s/better-linker have been implemented at this point. It was a multi-person effort, several members of the Go compiler/runtime team were involved (Jeremy, Cherry, Austin, and myself).
The new indexed object file format and the improved deadcode implementation went into the tree in time to be included in Go 1.15. The additional changes in Go 1.16 include better streaming of data and relocations from object file to linker output, a rewrite of the pclntab code, support for content-addressable symbols, and more complete cleanup of the old legacy linker data structures (e.g. removal of sym.Symbol). Some things mentioned in the doc that didn't get implemented include moving to DWARF 5, and moving DWARF type generation from the linker to the compiler. HTH. Cheers, Than On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:46 AM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:49 AM Amnon <amno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > What is the best place to read about the ongoing work on the new linker? > > With the Go 1.15 release, how far along are we with the plans? > > What has been achieved? > > And what is still to come? > > The work on the new linker is close to complete and has been merged > into tip for the future 1.16 release (although 1.16 won't be released > until next February). The work is as described at > https://golang.org/s/better-linker. > > Ian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcXEK_OWZxKOUieHBdoH4R0eyddu_cMf_p_udWSKgZsHdA%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CA%2BUr55EHRz5O3HvdP6xwOZyrHWKJA-Oc%2B96nMOCnB%3DmzABTYqA%40mail.gmail.com.
