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Rob Findley 9189921e47 go/types,types2: externalize used objects
The 'used' field on Var and PkgName is fundamentally an aspect of the
type checking pass: it records when objects are used, for the purposes
of reporting errors for unused variables or package names. While
expedient and performant, recording this information in the types.Object
instances themselves increases the memory footprint of type-checked
packages, and (as we saw in golang/go#71817) can lead to data races when
Objects are reused in follow-up type checking, such as is done with the
CheckExpr and Eval APIs.

Fix this by externalizing the 'used' information into two maps (one for
variables and one for packages) on the types.Checker, so that they are
garbage-collected after type checking, and cannot be a source of data
races.

Benchmarks showed essentially no change in performance.

Fixes golang/go#71817

Change-Id: I40daeabe4ecaca3bcb494e2f1c62a04232098e49
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/650796
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.github .github: update language change proposal template 2024-08-08 19:02:29 +00:00
api go/types: add Var.Kind() VarKind method 2025-03-05 10:21:15 -08:00
doc go/types: add Var.Kind() VarKind method 2025-03-05 10:21:15 -08:00
lib lib/time: build with Ubuntu backward compatibility options 2025-02-06 17:10:15 -08:00
misc misc/wasm: move wasm runtime files to lib/wasm 2024-08-30 19:15:21 +00:00
src go/types,types2: externalize used objects 2025-03-05 13:54:45 -08:00
test cmd/compile: fix out of memory when inlining closure 2025-03-04 03:10:17 -08:00
.gitattributes all: treat all files as binary, but check in .bat with CRLF 2020-06-08 15:31:43 +00:00
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CONTRIBUTING.md doc: normalize proposal-process links 2023-03-29 22:00:27 +00:00
go.env cmd/go: additional doc-inspired tests and bug fixes 2023-06-06 19:18:46 +00:00
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