On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 6:31:05 AM UTC-7, Peter Herth wrote:
>
> And, as this very benchmarking site is far too often abused to talk down 
> on languages, just because they have some bad test results, we as the Go 
> community should try to get the fastest results there - most other programs 
> are not very idiomatic or reasonable even. 
>


When the benchmarks game is abused to talk down on Go, that's also an 
opportunity to talk up the benefits of Go.

"*… *the versions of the C code we've pickled in our repo are not even 
close to the fastest. They were chosen for clarity and simplicity for easy 
comparison *by us* with equivalent Go code."

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/CF5wyVEjEaY/KRgzpjdH3fAJ

Recently the Chapel group did much the same.

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