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Re: [PATCH 00/13] Go closures, libffi, and the static chain


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> So instead I thought about how I'd add some support for Go directly
> into libffi.  After all, we've got some custom code in libffi for
> Java, why couldn't Go have the same treatment?
>
> The stickler, as far as I could see, is __go_set_context.  I didn't
> like the idea of libffi needing a callback into libgo in order to
> accomplish the goal.
>
> But the comment immediately before __go_set_closure itself says
> that it would be better to use the static chain register.  So I set
> about to see how easy that would be to accomplish.  (And not for
> nothing such a change would make gccgo compiled programs faster
> by avoiding the library calls.)
>
> The following patch set enables this for x86_64, i386, and aarch64[3].

...

> Before I go too much farther down this road, I wanted to get some
> feedback.  FWIW, a complete tree can be found at [4].

I think this is a great idea.  Thanks.

Ian


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