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Aug 10, 2020

Why Go modules are faster than GOPATH

Downloading dependencies with Go modules can be significantly faster than using GOPATH-based dependency management. A fresh dependency download experiment for this post took 9 minutes and 33.845 seconds in GOPATH mode and 10.185 seconds in module mode. This post explains why. …

Go

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Why Go modules are faster than GOPATH
Why Go modules are faster than GOPATH

Oct 9, 2018

How big is an int in Go?

Go has several built-in numeric types, “sets of integer or floating-point values.” Some architecture-independent types are uint8 (8-bit, unsigned integer), int16 (16-bit, signed integer), and complex128 (128-bit complex number). Curiously, the Go spec also includes architecture-dependent types: uint int uintptr How many bits do these types require? Unhelpfully, the spec…

Programming

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How big is an int in Go?
How big is an int in Go?
Tyler Bui-Palsulich

Tyler Bui-Palsulich

Engineer at Google, working on Go and Google Cloud Platform

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