Go language evolving for future hardware, AI workloads [Video]

The Go programming language having just turned 15 years old on November 10, proponents now are planning to adapt the Go language to large multicore systems, the latest vector and matrix hardware instructions, and the needs of AI workloads.

In a blog post on November 11, Austin Clements of the Go team said that, looking forward, Go would be evolved to better leverage the capabilities of current and future hardware. “In order to ensure Go continues to support high-performance, large-scale production workloads for the next15 years, we need to adapt to large multicores, advanced instruction sets, and the growing importance of locality in increasingly non-uniform memory hierarchies,” Clements said. The Go 1.24 release will have a new map implementation that is more efficient on modern CPUs, and the Go team is prototyping new garbage collection algorithms that are designed for modern hardware. Some improvements will be in the form of APIs and tools that allow …