Profile-guided optimization in Go 1.21

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<h1>Profile-guided optimization in Go 1.21</h1>
  
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  Michael Pratt<br>
  5 September 2023
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  <p>Earlier in 2023, Go 1.20 <a href="/blog/pgo-preview">shipped a preview of profile-guided optimization (PGO)</a> for users to test.

After addressing known limitations in the preview, and with additional refinements thanks to community feedback and contributions, PGO support in Go 1.21 is ready for general production use!
See the profile-guided optimization user guide for complete documentation.

Below we will run through an example of using PGO to improve the performance of an application. Before we get to that, what exactly is “profile-guided optimizat...

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