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"When people rewrite system from X where X in (Python, Ruby, Node, Clojure) to Go they usually see at least 10x improvement." Sure but how much of the performa
by karim 8y ago
"When people rewrite system from X where X in (Python, Ruby, Node, Clojure) to Go they usually see at least 10x improvement."
Sure but how much of the performance gains come from Go and how much come from just having a better understanding of the problem the second time around?
- zepolen 8y agoGo is strongly typed and compiled, it literally does 10x less work than dynamic languages for most things. Pypy leads to a near 10x speed up over cPython as well.