>> Go is known to be quite slow I understood it was comparable to Java or C#, both of which are extremely fast - both in terms of execution speed and more so i

>> Go is known to be quite slow I understood it was comparable to Java or C#, both of which are extremely fast - both in terms of execution speed and more so in terms of developer productivity. The benchmarks I’ve seen generally back that up https://plummerssoftwarellc.github.io/PrimeView/report?id=davepl-1642852131.json&hi=False&hf=False&hp=False&fi=&fp=&fa=&ff=&fb=&tp=False&sc=pp&sd=True https://plummerssoftwarellc.github.io/PrimeView/report?id=da... 9th overall - faster than c++ for example in Dave Plummers primes benchmark. I quite like that benchmark because it’s really just a bunch of memory operations, a decent view of the compilers ability to generate decent code. Although my concern with this benchmark is that not all languages got the same optimisation effort. Looking at git commits, it seems like rust got almost more optimisation effort than every other language combined. Also i don’t like the unfiltered view of that benchmark - lisp comes out fastest language of all but that’s because languages like c++ and Rust can only really pre calculate results at compile time (constexpr etc) - whereas that lisp implementation is doing everything before compilation. Unfair because other languages don’t have a programmable precompilation reader phase. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/box-plot-summary-charts.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... In the area of java, Swift etc i don’t like these benchmarks at all though. The c# one for example often relies on c libraries or vector intrinsics etc so it’s not really like for like. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=ph&test=composite https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=... Between java and c#