Okay, this is yet another weekly HN "Hello world http benchmark on a Macbook Pro" series. I'd bite. The following Python snippet seems much faster than OP's Go

Okay, this is yet another weekly HN "Hello world http benchmark on a Macbook Pro" series. I'd bite. The following Python snippet seems much faster than OP's Go code under the same ab testing. HTTP server: https://github.com/jonashaag/bjoern https://github.com/jonashaag/bjoern import bjoern, json def home_app(environ, start_response): start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')]) s = {'name': 'A Royal Baby', 'body':'A slow news week'} yield json.dumps(s) bjoern.run(home_app, '127.0.0.1', 8086)