[igouy]

Where did you get the idea that 10 tiny tiny programs could tell you about a programming language’s average performance?

Who in this discussion has made any such a claim?

You repeatedly put up a straw man.

[weberc2]

Im not sure why you’re confused. ilovecaching made claims about the relative performance of programming languages based on the benchmark game.

[igouy]

ilovecaching responded to your claim that — [Go's] performance is closer to Java — by posting links to pages on the benchmarks game website.

ilovecaching pointed to the performance of specific Go and Java programs

Now you have put up a straw man — "a programming language’s average or percentile performance or even its peak performance."