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Python has benefited from years of throughout optimization of the language for real-world use. Go is still under heavy development and is not as optimized as ot

• stock_toaster 13y ago
  > (that explains why node.js is a bit faster than Go for handling HTTP requests at the moment) Pretty sure node's http parsing is handled by http-parser[1], which is written in C (originally pulled from nginx as I recall). Go's http parser is written in Go. [1]: https://github.com/joyent/http-parser https://github.com/joyent/http-parser
  • zimbatm 13y ago
    If I remember correctly the initial versions of node had the ragel-based http parser from mongrel but then ryan rewrote it. http-parser is hand-written.
    • stock_toaster 13y ago
      maybe not entirely hand written? source[1] [1]: https://github.com/joyent/http-parser/blob/master/LICENSE-MIT#L1 https://github.com/joyent/http-parser/blob/master/LICENSE-MI...
• nickpresta 13y ago
  > (that explains why node.js is a bit faster than Go for handling HTTP requests at the moment) I'm not sure that is true any more: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7&test=plaintext&l=cu8&p=5c-0&f=ziimf3-qmx0qn-zijobv http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7... At any rate, "handling HTTP requests" can't possibly be your bottleneck, given network communication, serialization, etc.