go - Does Golang run on a virtual machine? -

say simple golang code:

package main  import "fmt"  func plus( int, b int) int {      return a+b }  func plusplus(a,b,c int) int {     return  +b  + c }  func main() {      ptr := plus     ptr2 := plusplus      fmt.println(ptr)     fmt.println(ptr2) } 

this has following output:

0x2000 0x2020 

what going on here? doesn't function pointer, or kind of pointer matter, 1 find in stack. understand go, while offering nice low level functionality in threading department, requires os function; c functional across computer platforms , operating systems can written in while go needs operating system function , in fact works on few os right now. regular function pointers mean works on vm? or compiler linked low level c functions?

go not run on virtual machine.

from view of language specification, ptr , ptr2 function values. can called ptr(1, 2) , ptr2(1, 2, 3).

diving down implementation, variables ptr , ptr2 pointers func values. see function call design document information on func values. note distinction between language's "function" value , implementation's "func" value.

because relflection api used fmt package indirects through func values pointer print, call tofmt.println(ptr) prints actual address of plus function.