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by mikelward 2177 days ago
I used a Go-based window manager called Wingo for quite a while and never noticed any performance issues.
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pjmlp 2177 days ago
Go is also fully compiled to native code, big difference.
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yjftsjthsd-h 2177 days ago
But it's still garbage collected. And GC should be done by the python interpreter proper, so it would be in native code.
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pjmlp 2177 days ago
A tiny portion of Python's total execution time.
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yjftsjthsd-h 2177 days ago
Don't get me wrong; I expect Go to be far more performant than Python. Just, they're both garbage-collected, and I have no reason to expect GC perf (specifically) to differ.
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pjmlp 2177 days ago
Which just shows that learning about GC algorithms is a must.

http://gchandbook.org/

And the differences between value types, AOT compiled code execution, bytecode interpreters and FFI marshalling costs between bytecode interpreters and native libraries.

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