tree 2c48bcb9689c5e3f7656c7edaa24ba8dc85a26ef
parent fd788a86b6427ef7ec1f25d4d4f0412bc883ccaf
author Keith Randall <khr@google.com> 1554146542 -0700
committer Keith Randall <khr@golang.org> 1556042292 +0000

runtime: randomize package initialization order in race mode

This is one small step to force people to not depend on the order of
initialization of packages which are not explicitly ordered by import
directives. Similar to randomizing map iteration order, this makes
sure people aren't depending on the behavior of the current release,
so that we can change the order in future releases without breaking
everyone.

Maybe one day we can randomize always, but for now we do it just in
race mode. (We would need to measure the impact on startup time before
we enabled it always.)

RELNOTE=yes

Change-Id: I99026394796125974c5f2c3660a88becb92c9df3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/170318
Run-TryBot: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>