I prototyped a cache in Go and the ref. impl. in C. I'm a long time Go coder but did not expect the Go prototype to run so damn close to the C (and for certain

I prototyped a cache in Go and the ref. impl. in C. I'm a long time Go coder but did not expect the Go prototype to run so damn close to the C (and for certain ops actually faster than C). The runtime is shaping up quite nicely. Given dynamic linking and this language can pretty much pull its weight in the backend for almost anything.