Go's compilers are still very young and do almost no optimizations. Also, the 32bit compilers are specially bad as they are not really used by most of the Go d

Go's compilers are still very young and do almost no optimizations. Also, the 32bit compilers are specially bad as they are not really used by most of the Go developers, the 64bit compilers do much better as you can see here: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...