> Go is generally 50-100x faster than CPython (slide 20) I find that a weird sentence in an otherwise carefully written article. The author is talking about w

> Go is generally 50-100x faster than CPython (slide 20) I find that a weird sentence in an otherwise carefully written article. The author is talking about writing software which does a lot of socket IO. So I would expect the performance discussion to make some reference to this; I assume what he's talking about in the quote is the behavior of pure CPU-bound code but he doesn't discuss to what extent this is really relevant to his project.