A lot of snarky and petty comments here I must say. Regardless of how the performance improvement was achieved I think it was quite interesting to see that you could convert a big chunks of C code to Go code with minimal effort and still get good performance.
I think too many here read the story as some kind of competition between Go and C, when it should be more read as how well the conversion process went. For anyone interested in going down this route, surely this is useful information.
We don’t have unlimited time in this industry and thus if something like this can be done with minimal effort while retaining expected performance , then I would say that we s a good thing.
Stop nitpicking as if the author tried to have final word on which language is faster.
> A lot of snarky and petty comments here I must say.
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think too many here read the story as some kind of competition between Go and C, when it should be more read as how well the conversion process went. For anyone interested in going down this route, surely this is useful information.
We don’t have unlimited time in this industry and thus if something like this can be done with minimal effort while retaining expected performance , then I would say that we s a good thing.
Stop nitpicking as if the author tried to have final word on which language is faster.