[platz]

I don't like go either, but I won't believe that a ghc webserver is a fast as a go webserver until we can see it in the techempower benchmarks.

[coolsunglasses]

The Techempower benchmarks are using the old version of GHC, 7.6, and the Golang devs have been tuning Go's core libraries to win at this specific benchmark.

[jlouis]

Even then, it is only a factor of 2 slower. That is next to nothing.

[coolsunglasses]

Right, precisely, and this is at a very silly tier of microbenchmarking where you're doing little to no actual work, something you virtually won't ever find in the "real world".

[fjh]

> The Techempower benchmarks are using the old version of GHC, 7.6

7.4, last time I checked.