One document about Go

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 06/01/2010 06:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> For example, many years ago, Microsoft came out with "incremental
> linking" as a cool new feature to speed up the link process. This got a
> lot of buzz in the press. My manager at the time decided we need an
> "incremental linking" feature in order to catch up to Microsoft. A big
> all-hands meeting ensued. The thing is, "incremental linking" was a hack
> that was necessary to work around a very slow linker. Our linker
> (optlink) was so fast that it ran rings around "incremental linking"
> even while always doing a full link. We'd failed to get this message
> out, even to our own management.

Sounds a lot like us failing to get the non-null references message out 
to you :o).

Andrei