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I didn't realize how far off Go's performance was from C/CPP, I have a feeling a lot of it is because of the 25+ years of optimization the c/CPP compilers have

I didn't realize how far off Go's performance was from C/CPP, I have a feeling a lot of it is because of the 25+ years of optimization the c/CPP compilers have gotten.

dgellow 7y ago
Go has a “stop the world” garbage collector, and some language features also have performance penalty (defer is well known for being slow). Just to say that’s not only a question of time, even if you wait and invest a huge amount of time and money you will see differences in performances because of language design choices.
- qtplatypus 7y ago
  Go has a concurrent GC not a stop the world GC.
  - dgellow 7y ago
    Right, thanks for correcting. That doesn’t change my point though.