A bit of profiling shows that the modulo operator takes most of the time:

 1.77s      1.77s (flat, cum)   100% of Total
         .          .      2:
         .          .      3:import (
         .          .      4: "testing"
         .          .      5:)
         .          .      6:
      10ms       10ms      7:func loop(m, n int) int {
         .          .      8: sum := int(0)
      30ms       30ms      9: for i := 0; i < 10000000; i++ {
     1.73s      1.73s     10: if i%n != m {
         .          .     11: sum += n
         .          .     12: }
         .          .     13: }
         .          .     14: return sum
         .          .     15:}




On Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 8:22:54 PM UTC+2, Miki Tebeka wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm comparing two loops in Go and C. The Go code on my machine is about 3 
> times slower than C. I know C can be faster but didn't think it'll be that 
> faster. Any ideas what's making the Go code slower?
>
> You can see the code at https://github.com/tebeka/go-c-loop
>
> Go Code:
> package main
>
>
> import (
>  "fmt"
>  "os"
>  "strconv"
>  "time"
> )
>
>
> func main() {
>  n, _ := strconv.Atoi(os.Args[1])
>  m, _ := strconv.Atoi(os.Args[2])
>
>
>  sum := int(0)
>  start := time.Now()
>  for i := 0; i < 10000000; i++ {
>  if i%n != m {
>  sum += n
>  }
>  }
>
>
>  fmt.Println(time.Now().Sub(start).Seconds(), sum)
> }
>
>
>
> C Code
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <x86intrin.h>
>
>
>
>
> int main(int argc,char** argv) {
>             unsigned long long ull0,ull1;
>             unsigned int sum=0,n,m;
>
>
>             sscanf(argv[1],"%d",&n);
>             sscanf(argv[2],"%d",&m);
>
>
>             ull0 = __rdtsc();
>             for(int i=0; i<10000000; i++) {
>                         if(i%n != m) {
>                                     sum += n;
>                         }
>
>
>             }
>
>
>             ull1 = __rdtsc();
>             printf("%f %d\n",(ull1-ull0)/2.1e9,sum);
> }
>
>
>
>

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