[kaba0]

> Can you expand a bit on that? I was under the impression that even with all that investment, Java code tends to be slower and more memory hungry than equivalent Go code.

Go doesn’t need a good GC as much because it can rely on value types sometimes. But for general enough workloads a superior GC can triumph.

Also, Java is memory hungry only in that doing GC when it is not absolutely needed is useless work. The JVM is actually quite power efficient due to trading off memory for better throughput — so especially in server environments with huge (up to multi-TB) memory which the JVM is free to use, it can be ridiculously fast. So no, java is not slower than equivalent Go program though correctly comparing languages is nigh impossible.