Hands-On High Performance with Go

Go toolset

Go's binary release also includes a vast toolset for creating optimized code. Within the Go binary, the go command has a lot of functions that help to build, deploy, and validate code. Let's discuss a couple of the core pieces of functionality as they relate to performance.

Godoc is Go's documentation tool that keeps the cruxes of documentation at the forefront of program development. A clean implementation, in-depth documentation, and modularity are all core pieces of building a scalable, performant system. Godoc helps with accomplishing these goals by auto-generating documentation. Godoc extracts and generates documentation from packages it finds within $GOROOT and $GOPATH. After generating this documentation, Godoc runs a web ...