Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014)

Re:Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014) by voidlogic on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:38PM (#8845681)

1. Go, being a statically compiled language/having a closer to the metal memory model, generally has higher single threaded performance.

2. Go allows true concurrency in many situations Python cannot (due to GIL etc); Go also supports lightweight threads that are multiplexed over actual OS threads.

3. Go makes it easier to control and reason about heap allocations.

4. Go is even easier than Python to integrate with C/ASM code.

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Re:Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014) by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:44PM (#8845724)

> 2. Go allows true concurrency in many situations Python cannot (due to GIL etc);

It would be more accurate to say that Go allows parallelism in situations where Python (in the standard implementation, at least) does not. Calling parallelism (what the GIL prevents) "true concurrency" isn't particularly helpful.

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Re:Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014) by voidlogic on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @01:15PM (#8845985)

True, I was imprecise. Thanks.

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