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by programminggeek 4694 days ago
People might beat up the benchmark or the methods, but in all honesty, Go should be an order of magnitude faster. It's compiled and runs about as fast as java in many benchmarks. I've seen some companies go from ruby to the jvm and have basically said 1 JVM instance = 10 ruby thin instances. So, when you think in that context, it makes total sense that go would be 10x faster than python for the same reasons that a compiled JVM language is 10x faster than ruby.

I'd say from the numbers I've seen this benchmark is not an unreasonable display of the performance difference between go and python.