On: Fast Reed-Solomon Coding in Go

[danieldk]

Is it just a matter of waiting for the Go compiler to "level up" optimizations to match GCC/Clang?

The compiler currently uses a syntrax tree-based IR that is not very easy to optimize. A new SSA backend for the compiler is planned for 1.6:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1szwabPJJc4J-igUZU4ZKprOr...

(This was blocked until the compiler was ported from C to Go.)