gogs was designed from the start to be fast. Nothing but a rewrite would make GitLab as fast as gogs for basic stuff on small self-hosted servers. For basic use

gogs was designed from the start to be fast. Nothing but a rewrite would make GitLab as fast as gogs for basic stuff on small self-hosted servers. For basic uses, the resources required for the platform of GitLab (rails) is greater than the resources required to use all of gogs.