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by omarforgotpwd 3954 days ago
It wasn't exactly a rewrite... the C code got passed through a tool that converted it from C to Go in a way that tried not to change anything. Now they have a bunch of non-idiomatic Go code that should do what the C code was doing before more or less. Judging from my use of Go 1.5 so far, it did a pretty good job but made the compiler noticably slower.