For you, is 2.12 seconds nearly as fast as 1.77 seconds? For 5 of those 10 tasks, the measurements on x64 show a C program less than twice as fast as a Go prog

For you, is 2.12 seconds nearly as fast as 1.77 seconds? For 5 of those 10 tasks, the measurements on x64 show a C program less than twice as fast as a Go program. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=go http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=go Could it be that those C programs were more highly optimised by the C programmers? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=gcc&id=4 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=spec... http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=go&id=3 http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=spec...