Go: LoongArch Gets a Tune-Up
Five of today's six commits tighten correctness and performance on the loong64 architecture, spanning vector encoding fixes, faster memory moves, and a shortened math dependency chain, while a separate build-system fix closes a long-standing gap in how Go handles test-only non-Go files.
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- Show: Go
- Published: 2026-09-14T13:05:59Z
- Audio duration: PT2M39S
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Good day, it's September 14th, 2026, and this is Go.
Today's story is a concentrated push on the loong64 architecture, touching correctness, performance, and test coverage all at once.
Start with correctness. Guoqi Chen's fix in commit 8bf767e addresses a regression from an earlier change that shifted a base register value, accidentally setting a bit that corrupted SIMD encoding. That's the kind of subtle bug that only shows up in vector instructions, and it's now closed.
From there, XiaolinZhao delivers a string of performance and reliability work on the same architecture. Commit 55d79d1 speeds up unaligned memory moves in the 33 to 64 byte range by switching to vector load and store pairs, cutting time on unaligned 64 byte copies by roughly a third, with only a small tradeoff on…
Together these show a coordinated effort from the LoongArch contributors to bring that platform's performance and test rigor closer to parity with more established architectures.
Separately, PR 81509 addresses a build-system edge case: non-Go files like a Windows resource file were being matched by test-file naming rules meant only for Go source, letting test-only files slip into production binaries and…