Go 1.4 Release Notes - The Go Programming Language

... #lowframe Documents Packages The Project Help Blog The Go Programming Language The latest Go release, version 1.4, arrives as scheduled six months after 1.3 and contains only one tiny language change, a possibly breaking change to the compiler, a backwards-compatible simple form of for - range loop. The release focuses primarily on implementation work, improving the garbage collector and preparing the ground for a fully concurrent collector to be rolled out in the next few releases. Stacks are now contiguous, reallocated when necessary rather than linking on new "segments"; this release therefore eliminates the notorious "hot stack split" problem. There are some new tools available including support in the go command for build-time source code generation. The release also adds support for ARM processors on Android and Native Client (NaCl) and AMD64 on Plan 9. A...

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