Re:The C++ bashing season is back (2009)
by jerf on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @11:24AM
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" But right now, there's still doesn't seem to be any Go equivalent of nginx in development. Go is probably getting mature enough, but I think that if actually squeezing every last ounce of performance is your goal, it still can't beat nginx."
There's no nginx in development because the built-in net/http library is actually pretty close to it already. Nginx beats it, but only by something like 25-50%, and if you compare the nginx source code to the net/http source code you'll see why nginx is going to likely retain that lead and Go isn't interested in the code quality tradeoff it would take to catch up to nginx. If you ever need an example of C used as "portable assembler", cite the core loop code of nginx.
There's no nginx in development because the built-in net/http library is actually pretty close to it already. Nginx beats it, but only by something like 25-50%, and if you compare the nginx source code to the net/http source code you'll see why nginx is going to likely retain that lead and Go isn't interested in the code quality tradeoff it would take to catch up to nginx. If you ever need an example of C used as "portable assembler", cite the core loop code of nginx.