doc/go1.18: catch up with runtime/compiler commits and API changes

For #47694.

Change-Id: I21b1af1807d4da2fb2f4d9b961d44a21d715d7d2
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/369155
Trust: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Trust: Jeremy Faller <jeremy@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Faller <jeremy@golang.org>
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Austin Clements 2021-12-03 13:39:42 -05:00
parent c4a8550421
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<h2 id="compiler">Compiler</h2>
<p><!-- https://golang.org/issue/40724 -->
Go 1.17 <a href=go1.17#compiler>implemented</a> a new way of passing
Go 1.17 <a href="go1.17#compiler">implemented</a> a new way of passing
function arguments and results using registers instead of the stack
on 64-bit x86 architecture on selected operating systems.
Go 1.18 expands the supported platforms to include 64-bit ARM (<code>GOARCH=arm64</code>),
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as well as 64-bit x86 architecture (<code>GOARCH=amd64</code>)
on all operating systems.
On 64-bit ARM and 64-bit PowerPC systems, benchmarking shows
performance improvements of 10% or more.
typical performance improvements of 10% or more.
</p>
<p>
As <a href=go1.17#compiler>mentioned</a> in the Go 1.17 release notes,
As <a href="go1.17#compiler">mentioned</a> in the Go 1.17 release notes,
this change does not affect the functionality of any safe Go code and
is designed to have no impact on most assembly code. See the
<a href=go1.17#compiler>Go 1.17 release notes</a> for more details.
<a href="go1.17#compiler">Go 1.17 release notes</a> for more details.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 355497, CL 356869 -->
The compiler now can inline functions that contain range loops or
labeled for loops.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 298611 -->
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new <code>go</code> command <code>-asan</code> option.
</p>
<p>
TODO: Mention build speed impact.
</p>
<h2 id="linker">Linker</h2>
<p><!-- CL 298610 -->
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handle Unicode punctuation and language-specific capitalization rules, and is superseded by the
<a href="https://golang.org/x/text/cases">golang.org/x/text/cases</a> package.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 351710 -->
TODO: bytes.Cut.
</p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- bytes -->
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</dd>
</dl>
<dl id="go/ast"><dt><a href="/pkg/go/ast/">go/ast</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>
TODO: Mention new generics APIs.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl id="go/types"><dt><a href="/pkg/go/types/">go/types</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>
TODO: Mention new generics APIs.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl id="image/draw"><dt><a href="/pkg/image/draw/">image/draw</a></dt>
<dd>
<p><!-- CL 340049 -->
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<a href="/pkg/net#Error"><code>net.Error.Temporary</code></a> has been deprecated.
</p>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>
TODO: Several new net APIs.
</p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- net -->
<dl id="net/http"><dt><a href="/pkg/net/http/">net/http</a></dt>
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<a href="/pkg/reflect#Value.FieldByIndex"><code>Value.FieldByIndex</code></a>
when stepping through a nil pointer to an embedded struct.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 341333 -->
<a href="/pkg/reflect#Ptr"><code>reflect.Ptr</code></a> and
<a href="/pkg/reflect#PtrTo"><code>reflect.PtrTo</code></a>
have been renamed to
<a href="/pkg/reflect#Pointer"><code>reflect.Pointer</code></a> and
<a href="/pkg/reflect#Pointer"><code>reflect.PointerTo</code></a>,
respectively, for consistency with the rest of the reflect package.
The old names will continue to work, but will be deprecated in a
future Go release.
</p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- reflect -->
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handle Unicode punctuation and language-specific capitalization rules, and is superseded by the
<a href="https://golang.org/x/text/cases">golang.org/x/text/cases</a> package.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 351710 -->
TODO: strings.Cut.
</p>
</dd>
</dl><!-- strings -->