I did a small benchmark on some trivial code: https://gist.github.com/markuswustenberg/8be63c6e95dc5bb50fff6e14cc26f5eb https://gist.github.com/markuswustenberg

I did a small benchmark on some trivial code: https://gist.github.com/markuswustenberg/8be63c6e95dc5bb50fff6e14cc26f5eb https://gist.github.com/markuswustenberg/8be63c6e95dc5bb50ff... Results vary a bit on my machine, but it's pretty much the same (unless I'm doing something wrong, please point it out if so): $ make benchmark go test -bench=. goos: darwin goarch: arm64 pkg: sqlite BenchmarkWriteBlogPost/write_blog_post_without_WAL-8 6036 186719 ns/op BenchmarkWriteBlogPost/write_blog_post_with_WAL-8 102567 11169 ns/op BenchmarkWriteBlogPost/write_blog_post_with_WAL_and_Go_mutex-8 104228 11226 ns/op PASS ok sqlite 3.833s