> But many Go libraries (like regex or http) are very immature and horribly slow, as is the garbage collector, which is the reason for the bad averages in the alioth shootout.
If that was true, taking regex-dna and pi-digits and binary-trees out of the data would shift the median significantly - (last time I checked) it doesn't.
However it is an explanation for that 13x slower data point.
I don't know exactly which libraries are immature and slow. These were just examples. Whether a language is optimizable for speed is to some degree a theoretical property, so I wouldn't worry too much about speed at this point. It's going to come as Go has everything it takes.
If that was true, taking regex-dna and pi-digits and binary-trees out of the data would shift the median significantly - (last time I checked) it doesn't.
However it is an explanation for that 13x slower data point.