</p>

<p>
Reads of memory locations larger than a single machine word
are encouraged but not required to meet the same semantics
as word-sized memory locations,
observing a single allowed write <i>w</i>.
For performance reasons,
implementations may instead treat larger operations
as a set of individual machine-word-sized operations
in an unspecified order.

</p>

<h2 id="runtime">Runtime</h2>

<p><!-- CL 543255 -->
  The runtime now keeps type-based garbage collection metadata nearer to each
  heap object, improving the CPU performance (latency or throughput) of Go programs
  by 1&ndash;3%.
  This change also reduces the memory overhead of the majority Go programs by

If both <code>n</code> and <code>m</code> are provided and are constant, then
<code>n</code> must be no larger than <code>m</code>.
If <code>n</code> is negative or larger than <code>m</code> at run time,
a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a> occurs.
</p>

<pre>
s := make([]int, 10, 100)       // slice with len(s) == 10, cap(s) == 100

If both <code>n</code> and <code>m</code> are provided and are constant, then
<code>n</code> must be no larger than <code>m</code>.
For slices and channels, if <code>n</code> is negative or larger than <code>m</code> at run time,
a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a> occurs.
</p>

<pre>

MOVQ	g(CX), AX     // Move g into AX.
MOVQ	g_m(AX), BX   // Move g.m into BX.
</pre>

<p>
Register <code>BP</code> is callee-save.
The assembler automatically inserts <code>BP</code> save/restore when frame size is larger than zero.
Using <code>BP</code> as a general purpose register is allowed,
however it can interfere with sampling-based profiling.
</p>

<h3 id="arm">ARM</h3>

<p>