It's a fair point. However, when I did that port, almost a year ago, I did it to understand how Go compares to Python in terms of writing the code. The result w

It's a fair point. However, when I did that port, almost a year ago, I did it to understand how Go compares to Python in terms of writing the code. The result was fast enough, I didn't bother benchmarking. Plus, whatever the results were then, Go's compiler and runtime has improved in the past year, so the data would no longer be indicative of current performance. And the compiler is still being improved.