It’s not allowed to preallocate memory in certain benchmarks, so it has to do allocations in a tight loop. Go’s allocations are more expensive by design because idiomatic Go doesn’t create as much garbage as other GC languages.

If you’re here for a language slap fight, you’ll have to find someone else to talk to.

EDIT: good grief, the overwhelming majority of your recent comments are “debates” about the benchmark game. Do you have an alert for references to this phrase or something?

Well tossaway’s account was created 66 days ago so clearly not, and anyway I’m not going to be baited into your holy war.