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by BitPirate 589 days ago
The benchmark is apparently a bit flawed[1]. I'd take the results with a grain of salt.

[1] https://caddy.community/t/nginx-vs-caddy-benchmark-video/261...

1 comments

There's not much substance in the reply there, on one part there's this argument:

> Go programs are fast enough for Google, Netflix, Stripe, and many other large Internet companies… it’s probably fast enough for you

Which of course is an appeal to authority. Overall, it's pretty well known that a GC language will have downsides in perf when compared to system programming languages.