Commit 87a54677 authored by Austin Clements's avatar Austin Clements

doc/go1.14: release notes for runtime and compiler

Change-Id: I9519659983de23f43ff0e05cffd336d8bc351400
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/211758Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Rakoczy <alex@golang.org>
parent d7b4428c
......@@ -66,6 +66,33 @@ TODO
64-bit <code>darwin/arm64</code> port.
</p>
<h3 id="windows">Windows</h3>
<p><!-- CL 203601 -->
Go binaries on Windows now
have <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/data-execution-prevention">DEP
(Data Execution Prevention)</a> enabled.
</p>
<h3 id="wasm">WebAssembly</h3>
<p><!-- CL 203600 -->
JavaScript values referenced from Go via <code>js.Value</code>
objects can now be garbage collected.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 203600 -->
<code>js.Value</code> values can no longer be compared using
the <code>==</code> operator, and instead must be compared using
their <code>Equal</code> method.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 203600 -->
<code>js.Value</code> now
has <code>IsUndefined</code>, <code>IsNull</code>,
and <code>IsNaN</code> methods.
</p>
<h3 id="freebsd">FreeBSD</h3>
<p><!-- golang.org/issue/24715 -->
......@@ -207,6 +234,30 @@ TODO
TODO
</p>
<p><!-- CL 190098 -->
This release improves the performance of most uses
of <code>defer</code> to incur almost zero overhead compared to
calling the deferred function directly.
As a result, <code>defer</code> can now be used in
performance-critical code without overhead concerns.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 201760, CL 201762 and many others -->
Goroutines are now asynchronously preemptible.
As a result, loops without function calls no longer potentially
deadlock the scheduler or significantly delay garbage collection.
This is supported on all platforms except <code>windows/arm</code>,
<code>darwin/arm</code>, <code>js/wasm</code>, and
<code>plan9/*</code>.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 201765, CL 195701 and many others -->
The page allocator is more efficient and incurs significantly less
lock contention at high values of <code>GOMAXPROCS</code>.
This is most noticeable as lower latency and higher throughput for
large allocations being done in parallel and at a high rate.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 171844 and many others -->
Internal timers, used by
<a href="/pkg/time/#After"><code>time.After</code></a>,
......@@ -218,6 +269,42 @@ TODO
visible changes.
</p>
<h2 id="compiler">Compiler</h2>
<p><!-- CL 162237 -->
This release adds <code>-d=checkptr</code> as a compile-time option
for adding instrumentation to check that Go code is following
<code>unsafe.Pointer</code> safety rules dynamically.
This option is enabled by default with the <code>-race</code>
or <code>-msan</code> flags, and can be disabled
with <code>-gcflags=-all=-d=checkptr=0</code>.
Specifically, <code>-d=checkptr</code> checks the following:
</p>
<ol>
<li>
When converting <code>unsafe.Pointer</code> to <code>*T</code>,
the resulting pointer must be aligned appropriately
for <code>T</code>.
</li>
<li>
If the result of pointer arithmetic points into a Go heap object,
one of the <code>unsafe.Pointer</code>-typed operands must point
into the same object.
</li>
</p>
<p><!-- CL 196959 -->
Detailed escape analysis diagnostics (<code>-m=2</code>) now work again.
This had been dropped from the new escape analysis implementation in
the previous release.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 196217 -->
All Go symbols in macOS binaries now begin with an underscore,
following platform conventions.
</p>
<h2 id="library">Core library</h2>
<p>
......@@ -303,6 +390,11 @@ TODO
<dl id="runtime"><dt><a href="/pkg/runtime/">runtime</a></dt>
<dd>
<p><!-- CL 200081 -->
<code>runtime.Goexit</code> can no longer be aborted by a
recursive <code>panic</code>/<code>recover</code>.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 187739 -->
TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/187739">https://golang.org/cl/187739</a>: treat CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT, CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT, CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT as SIGTERM on Windows
</p>
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