post on using go 1.5 and GC latency

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Sun Aug 23 12:42:45 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 12:49:35 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> You are mixing too many factors here. "General purpose" has 
> nothing to do with performance, it is to do with can the 
> language describe most if not all forms of computation. Go is a 
> general purpose programming language just like C, C++, D, Rust, 
> Haskell, OCaml.

Yes, of course it is, but given it's typical use context I find 
it odd that they didn't go more towards higher level constructs. 
For me Go displaces Python where more speed is required, though I 
wish it was more pythonic… (neither C++, Rust or D are really 
eligible)



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