This is a fair criticism presented in a poor way. Hopefully the performance will improve with the new dev.ssa branch eventually.
I will note that go programs still seem to build orders of magnitude faster than C++ programs, even after this change.
I will note that go programs still seem to build orders of magnitude faster than C++ programs, even after this change.
Because the compiler is now written in Go, compiler optimization will affect how fast programs compile.
The compiler may speed up or slow down because it is doing more advanced code analysis, but is generating better assembly. I do not know if this will cancel itself out or not.