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Re:Benchmarking D vs Go vs Erlang vs C for MQTT broker by andralex on Thursday December 05, 2013 @04:18PM (#6857318)
Quite a few things.

The Go version was written by a person enthusiastic and presumably competent in Go. See their perspective here where he concedes defeat on the performance front: http://blog.nella.org/mqtt-code-golf/

Adding C as a baseline is entirely appropriate.

The source code for C, Go, and D is available. The Erlang version may or may not at the discretion of its author.

Probably a more sensible hypothesis is that you like Go and saw a result that is unfavorable to it, so you had an emotional response.

Re:Benchmarking D vs Go vs Erlang vs C for MQTT broker by azth on Friday December 06, 2013 @01:46AM (#6859793)
> As usual, Go programs compare quite favorably to C programs in terms of memory safety...

That's not saying much :)