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Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support


Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language.

Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language. Go 1.24 delivers on various performance improvements, full support for generic type aliases with the Go programming language, various Go tooling improvements, standard library additions to facilitate FIPS 140-3 compliance, the "os.Root" type in the standard library to perform file-system operations isolated under a specific directory, and improved WebAssembly support. When it comes to the performance work within Go 1.24, the runtime CPU overhead has been decreased by 2~3% on average across various representative benchmarks.

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