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I don't think this is a resounding victory for Go. It's a compiled language and yet it can only manage just over 3000 requests a second. With such a small diffe

I don't think this is a resounding victory for Go. It's a compiled language and yet it can only manage just over 3000 requests a second. With such a small difference in speed, I'd be better off with Python. If you want to see some impressive figures from a compiled language, look at Haskell's snap.

enneff 15y ago
web.go is very allocation heavy and unoptimized so I am unsurprised at the less-than astounding performance shown here. Also as I said r59 is very old and go has come a long way since. Go isn't just about speed. it is also a much cleaner and simpler language than Python. Go is designed to scale programs from tens to tens of millions of lines of code.
- ramblerman 15y ago
  " it is also a much cleaner and simpler language than Python" I jumped on github to look at some go code after you said this, but was quickly dissapointed. It seems like a mix between java and c