Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

[Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>]

> Only lightly tested.

In a sense, plan9/arm go is tested as well as any other platform:
under the go continuous development process, every time a change
is made to the compiler or runtime library, a complete test suite
is run on builder machines for every supported architecture and
operating system.  If you look at https://build.golang.org and
scroll wayyyyyyyy over to the right, the plan9/arm column refers
to a set of Raspberry Pi machines run by David du Columbier and me.

In another sense, it's probably not very well tested at all:
I'm not aware of any production application being run on go in
Plan 9, on any machine architecture.  I haven't used go seriously
myself, but I find the test suite gives the OS such a brutal workout
(especially with small physical memory) that it's a good way
to flush out underlying Plan 9 bugs.

The tests show some intermittent hard-to-reproduce failures ("flakes")
on all the Plan 9 builders.  Many are timing issues because the tests
make assumptions about absolute speed of builder machines; but there
are some "can't happen" panics during garbage collection which smell
like a cache or memory barrier problem.  Please don't use plan9/arm
go to run your nuclear power plant just yet ...