It is better to compare Go to C's performance, not to C++: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=binarytrees
c++ ((Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2.1) 5.3.1 20160413): real 0m3.092s user 0m2.772s sys 0m0.316s c ((Ubuntu 5.3.1-14ubuntu2.1) 5.3.1 20160413): real 0m2.048s user 0m5.728s sys 0m0.572s go (go1.7rc1 linux/amd64, test is modified to use mmapped pools: https://github.com/pi/goal/blob/master/internal/tests/benchmarkgame-binarytrees/binarytrees.go): real 0m2.152s user 0m5.992s sys 0m0.328s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.