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GopherCon 2016: The Design of the Go Assembler - Rob Pike
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Rob Pike's GopherCon 2016 talk on the design of the Go assembler, explaining why Go uses a common assembly language translated to each architecture.
HN points to it for background on how the Go toolchain targets many architectures and why its assembler is designed that way.
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