> Cgo calls take about 40ns, about the same time encoding/json takes to parse a single digit integer. As an aside, that sure feels like a lot of time to parse

> Cgo calls take about 40ns, about the same time encoding/json takes to parse a single digit integer. As an aside, that sure feels like a lot of time to parse a single-digit integer. Not catastrophic by any means, but still, 100 to 200 cycles is a sign the program is definitely Doing Something. Perhaps that’s the memory allocator?