Fixing Interface Erasure in Go

2 points by cdoxsey 4 years ago | 2 comments

tomohawk 4 years ago |

> We can use a switch with an integer which Go can optimize into a jump table.

I wasn't aware that golang switch statements were ever turned into jump tables. But then again, maybe they will be soon?

cdoxsey 4 years ago | |

Good catch. It seems like they implemented binary search, but not the jump tables yet.

tomohawk 4 years ago |

> We can use a switch with an integer which Go can optimize into a jump table.

I wasn't aware that golang switch statements were ever turned into jump tables. But then again, maybe they will be soon?

cdoxsey 4 years ago | |

Good catch. It seems like they implemented binary search, but not the jump tables yet.