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doc: add release note on dead global map variable deletion 

Add a short release note blurb on linker dead-coding of global map
variables.

Updates #58645.

Change-Id: Ibfdd3e2b2b78517db4245b1d7eedd5e75a643b47
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/498575
Reviewed-by: Eli Bendersky <eliben@google.com>
TryBot-Bypass: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>
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Than McIntosh 2023-05-26 10:10:01 -04:00
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@ -190,9 +190,11 @@ Do not send CLs removing the interior tags from such phrases.
</p>
<!-- CL 463395 -->
<p>
<!-- cmd/link: linker portion of dead map removal -->
In Go 1.21 the linker (with help from the compiler) is now capable of
deleting dead (unreferenced) global map variables, if the number of
entries in the variable initializer is sufficiently large, and if the
initializer expressions are side-effect free.
</p>
<p>
TODO: complete this section, or delete if not needed
</p>