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Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo

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302 points pehringer | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 14:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

A quick dive into the Plan9 assembly I picked up while developing my SIMD package for Go, and how it led to a 450% performance boost in calculations.
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mxey ◴[18 Oct 24 16:10 UTC] No.41880731[source]▶
> After doing some preliminary research I discovered that Go uses its own internal assembly language called Plan9.

Is the language actually called that?

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rsc ◴[18 Oct 24 19:44 UTC] No.41882801[source]▶
No. It's just Go assembly. (It happens to be a Plan 9-derived syntax, but we call it Go assembly.) See https://go.dev/doc/asm.
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1. KyleSanderson ◴[18 Oct 24 23:47 UTC] No.41884495[source]▶
nice to see you around still :)
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