> BTW, the author claims Go is faster than Java. Is this true, because it didn't used to be? Not for any meaningful deployments. The amounts of optimizations d

> BTW, the author claims Go is faster than Java. Is this true, because it didn't used to be? Not for any meaningful deployments. The amounts of optimizations done by HotSpot completely dominate anything that golang does (which isn't much). In golang, not even function parameters are optimized to be passed in registers, let alone aggressive interface devirtualization, etc.