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fatty_patty89 • today at 1:27 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The problem with Go isn't performance but with the C/C++ interop overhead, even with the "30% less overhead" from a few updates ago which isnt true for 99% of cases, it isnt enough


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victorbjorklund • today at 2:25 PM

Why is that the case? I don’t know low level programming so why is Go limited in interop with C?

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pjmlp • today at 3:45 PM

Use Assembly instead of CGO, isn't that scary, back in the 8 bit days we were coding Assembly aged 10, on our Spectrum, C64, Atari, Apple, Acorn, MSX,....