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by JTenerife 2210 days ago
No benchmarks or any other numbers. I wonder how much faster some typical Go code (some CLIs, Hugo or webservices) will run? Around 1%, 5% or 10%?

The Go compiler doesn't need to be smarter for Go's usecase. If it can be made smarter, fine. For best possible performance look at C/C++ or Rust.
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_urga 2210 days ago
"No benchmarks or any other numbers."

And yet plenty of logical argument. The author assumes a level of optimization experience on the part of the reader, for example that the reader appreciates the physical cost of branch mispredictions.

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bfrog 2209 days ago
It's too bad Go has poor performance calling C functions, if it didn't I think most issues with the language could be worked around.
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