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		gwbas1c on Nov 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go does not need a Java-style GC I doubt it'll be that hard. Just write the same memory intense routine in both languages, and time it running in a loop for a couple million executions. Make sure the code is idiomatic and optimized.

tatersolid on Dec 1, 2021 [–]

> Make sure the code is idiomatic and optimized.

Those are basically opposite ends of the same axis.

Heavily optimized code is never idiomatic in any language. If the natural, idiomatic code were fast enough it wouldn’t need to be optimized!

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