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by quatrevingts 4828 days ago
You'd really be OK with gcc being 2-3x slower?

As much as I love high-level programming, many of the most interesting and important problems are ones where a "small" constant factor is the difference between great and mediocre.
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enneff 4828 days ago
I don't think it would be 2-3x slower.
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coldtea 4828 days ago
Why thought? By all we know, it would be.

On most algorithmic benchmarks Go is 2-3 or more times slower than C/C++.

And parsing something like a large C++ codebase with a GC language like Go would result in tons of memory used (and slowness).

Heck, even Go compiling Go programs gets OOM'ed sometimes in Linux.

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