Commit afe675c2 authored by Russ Cox's avatar Russ Cox

doc/faq: mention that copying discussion is semantics, not implementation

Fixes #17181.

Change-Id: If7cc4865e391acf76512f7ec7167d5a31377b598
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/31574Reviewed-by: 's avatarRob Pike <r@golang.org>
parent 39690beb
......@@ -1151,6 +1151,12 @@ struct. If the interface value holds a pointer, copying the interface value
makes a copy of the pointer, but again not the data it points to.
</p>
<p>
Note that this discussion is about the semantics of the operations.
Actual implementations may apply optimizations to avoid copying
as long as the optimizations do not change the semantics.
</p>
<h3 id="pointer_to_interface">
When should I use a pointer to an interface?</h3>
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