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by plorkyeran 4636 days ago
> It would be a little nutty to suggest that Golang 1.1 is going to give optimized C code a run for its money. Nobody could seriously be suggesting that.

AFAICT, the entire situation started only because the article was submitted to /r/Golang and /r/C++ with the trollbait title "Business Card Ray Tracer: Go faster than C++", and not because of anything in the article itself (which was actually a pretty good article).