Go: Discovery of the Trace Package

Vincent
A Journey With Go
Published in
5 min readFeb 12, 2020

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Illustration created for “A Journey With Go”, made from the original Go Gopher, created by Renee French.

ℹ️ This article is based on Go 1.13.

Go provides us a tool to enable tracing during the runtime and get a detailed view of the execution of our program. This tool can be enabled by flag -trace with the tests, frompprof to get live tracing, or anywhere in our code thanks to the trace package. This tool can be even more powerful since you can enhance it with your own traces. Let’s review how it works.

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