How Go helped save HealthCare.gov

Re:How Go helped save HealthCare.gov by porknubbins on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:35PM (#25042003)

I did just this, learning Go to do MITs Distributed Systems course. It has the speed and easy of dynamic scripting language plus a ton of sane defaults where JS and Python have quirks, and is compiled. My understanding is the major downside is the performance has stalled at 2-5x C++ which is not enough for systems infrastructure projects.

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Re:How Go helped save HealthCare.gov by chinhodado on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:27AM (#25043047)

What do you mean 2-5x C++ performance?

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Re:How Go helped save HealthCare.gov by barell on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:05AM (#25043200)

I think he means C++ is 2x to 5x faster to run than Go. I saw many benchmarks and not sure if that is true though. Go is still one of the fastest out there.

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Re:How Go helped save HealthCare.gov by cryptos on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:05AM (#25044635)

According to micro benchmarks C is about twice as fast as Go.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

That is already pretty fast, and I guess the difference in practical scenarios would be even smaller since external systems like DB's won't change their speed if you call them with another programming language and because production code is not always as optimized as benchmark code.

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Re:How Go helped save HealthCare.gov by porknubbins on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:18PM (#25054457)

Sorry, I mean in benchmarks Go took 2-5 times what C++ did to complete.

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