[pcwalton]

> Are you claiming Go runs at the speed of Ruby/Python/PHP etc?

No. I'm claiming it doesn't perform anywhere near the level of optimization of GCC and LLVM.

> I'd think Java can certainly be considered having highly optimized compiler / runtime. But it has almost same performance as Go and much higher memory usage compared to Go.

I disagree with what seems to be your implication that compiler optimizations don't matter (and almost everyone else who works on compilers would also disagree), but I don't really want to turn this thread into a critique of the benchmarks game, so let's just leave it at that.