Doesn't matter, it's still Go code, and contrary to many languages on that benchmark ( Java included ) all Go code is built in Go, so there is no runtime / exte

Doesn't matter, it's still Go code, and contrary to many languages on that benchmark ( Java included ) all Go code is built in Go, so there is no runtime / external library written in C/C++. ( one of the reason why Go is also slow on the regex benchmarks )