alt Hacker NewsYes, it is not specially different from other linkers. It has some tasks building the final binary including special sections in the binary, and is more aware about the specifics of the go language. But there is nothing that is extremely different from other linkers. The whole point of the series is to explain a real compiler, but in general, most of the parts of the go compiler are very widely used in other languages, like ssa, ast, escape analysis, inlining...
when does golang create the final dynamic dispatch tables? isn't that the one thing that in golang needs real compute at final link time, beyond what a C linker would do? and where C++ has all information at compile time, while golang can only create the dispatch tables at link time?