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authorAndrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>2014-12-11 11:22:54 +1100
committerAndrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>2014-12-11 11:22:54 +1100
commitb9b19954eb3a8539b2401bc82cb55749277d1979 (patch)
treeba62ea2c9dd841b39e43f69e471e9f809a4042f9
parent072cb5834685429bc3e0955e8164ed26c081fd06 (diff)
downloadgo-b9b19954eb3a8539b2401bc82cb55749277d1979.tar.gz
doc: tweak Go 1.4 release notes
LGTM=dave, dsymonds R=golang-codereviews, dave, dsymonds CC=golang-codereviews https://codereview.appspot.com/184350043
-rw-r--r--doc/go1.4.html19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/go1.4.html b/doc/go1.4.html
index 7f219480c..b4f9619bb 100644
--- a/doc/go1.4.html
+++ b/doc/go1.4.html
@@ -8,9 +8,15 @@
<p>
The latest Go release, version 1.4, arrives as scheduled six months after 1.3.
+</p>
+
+<p>
It contains only one tiny language change,
in the form of a backwards-compatible simple variant of <code>for</code>-<code>range</code> loop,
and a possibly breaking change to the compiler involving methods on pointers-to-pointers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
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.
@@ -21,6 +27,9 @@ There are some new tools available including support in the <code>go</code> comm
for build-time source code generation.
The release also adds support for ARM processors on Android and Native Client (NaCl)
and for AMD64 on Plan 9.
+</p>
+
+<p>
As always, Go 1.4 keeps the <a href="/doc/go1compat.html">promise
of compatibility</a>,
and almost everything
@@ -35,7 +44,7 @@ Up until Go 1.3, <code>for</code>-<code>range</code> loop had two forms
</p>
<pre>
-for k, v := range x {
+for i, v := range x {
...
}
</pre>
@@ -45,7 +54,7 @@ and
</p>
<pre>
-for k := range x {
+for i := range x {
...
}
</pre>
@@ -172,7 +181,7 @@ of the documentation.
<h3 id="runtime">Changes to the runtime</h3>
<p>
-Up to Go 1.4, the runtime (garbage collector, concurrency support, interface management,
+Prior to Go 1.4, the runtime (garbage collector, concurrency support, interface management,
maps, slices, strings, ...) was mostly written in C, with some assembler support.
In 1.4, much of the code has been translated to Go so that the garbage collector can scan
the stacks of programs in the runtime and get accurate information about what variables
@@ -198,7 +207,7 @@ Details are available in <a href="https://golang.org/s/contigstacks">the design
<p>
The use of contiguous stacks means that stacks can start smaller without triggering performance issues,
-so the default starting size for a goroutine's stack in 1.4 has been reduced to 2048 bytes from 8192 bytes.
+so the default starting size for a goroutine's stack in 1.4 has been reduced from 8192 bytes to 2048 bytes.
</p>
<p>
@@ -532,7 +541,7 @@ editor, even for editors we do not use.
The Go community at large is much better suited to managing this information.
In Go 1.4, therefore, this support has been removed from the repository.
Instead, there is a curated, informative list of what's available on
-a <a href="//golang.org/wiki/wiki/IDEsAndTextEditorPlugins">wiki page</a>.
+a <a href="//golang.org/wiki/IDEsAndTextEditorPlugins">wiki page</a>.
</p>
<h2 id="performance">Performance</h2>