big question & fair point. If the system includes the task of its own maintenance (and therefore the developers who work on it), go is faster than C because of

big question & fair point. If the system includes the task of its own maintenance (and therefore the developers who work on it), go is faster than C because of maintenance and correctness advantages. (that definition of system is more like 'systems biology' than 'close to the iron software that calls OS APIs'). If golang stays popular the compiler will keep getting faster. Especially because now that it's self-hosting, future improvements will improve compile & runtime perf.