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hornetblack on June 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Benefits of named return values in Go

Originally it compiled to Plan9 assembly which is cross platform. They have an SSA backend for some architectures now.

weberc2 on June 30, 2017 [–]

I thought the SSA backend was not replacing the Plan9 assembly, but that it was a phase that happened before the assembly was output (presumably SSA is a phase and not an IR?).

hornetblack on July 5, 2017 | [–]

Oh. That actually make more sense.

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