Advent 2019: Tour of Go Compilers

[mohammed90]

I have collected benchmark data for gc, gccgo (-O2 and -O3), and gollvm but opted not to include them because tables aren't neat and images of charts don't show enough details of thee variations.

[AliAlhajji]

Thanks Mohammed for the time and effort you've put into this article. It's very informative, I didn't know there were as many Go compilers!

I suggest a final run of proofreading to fix some syntax errors. I've catched some of them here:

On a high level, compilers are viewed as a single a single, solid, single-step-worker entity.

we must know on what basis do they compiler certain source code

[mewmew]

Hi Mohammed,

Thanks for this write-up on the various implementations of Go compilers. It was a joy to read (and review)!

I only found a few typos, other than that, a spectacular write-up :)

Wish you a happy winter holidays.

Cheerful regards,
Robin

[mohammed90]

Thank you @AliAlhajji and @mewmew for your review and kind words!

[mohammed90]

@bketelsen, this is supposed to be published today. Anything missing?

[mewmew]

@bketelsen, this is supposed to be published today. Anything missing?

I'd also love to see this post published, as it's very insightful and gives a good introduction to the Go compiler landscape.