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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by penagwin on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:55PM (#20329129)
I didn't realize how far off Go's performance was from C/CPP, I have a feeling a lot of it is because of the 25+ years of optimization the c/CPP compilers have gotten.
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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by dgellow on Monday July 01, 2019 @04:55PM (#20329657)
Go has a “stop the world” garbage collector, and some language features also have performance penalty (defer is well known for being slow). Just to say that’s not only a question of time, even if you wait and invest a huge amount of time and money you will see differences in performances because of language design choices.
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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by qtplatypus on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:40PM (#20331682)
Go has a concurrent GC not a stop the world GC.
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Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source by dgellow on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @04:08AM (#20333148)
Right, thanks for correcting. That doesn’t change my point though.
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