You say that, but because 1.5 is written in Go, it actually does significantly worse on some benchmarks and actual programs. See: https://talks.golang.org/2015

You say that, but because 1.5 is written in Go, it actually does significantly worse on some benchmarks and actual programs. See: https://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide#11 https://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide#11