On Monday, 17 October 2016 09:15:33 UTC-4, Axel Wagner wrote:
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> However, the compiler might be clever enough to optimize that out with
> inlining and escape analysis. And indeed, I'm failing to trigger the
> behavior with any simple testcase. So I might be wrong here. Would be
> interested in
There is no semantic difference.
Disclaimer: On everything that follows, I'm not an expert (and it seems I'm
wrong. Not sure exactly how, though).
Though there *might* be a (*very*) slight advantage to using a struct{}.
All struct{}'s have the same address in gc, so if you put a struct{} into
an
Hi,
I noticed that when io.Discard was introduced in
https://codereview.appspot.com/4426066/, it replaced code like:
type devNull struct{}
With:
type devNull int
Both had the very same implementation of the Write method:
func (devNull) Write(p []byte) (int, os.Error) {
return len(
