Thank you for all the insights!
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 14:59, Rich wrote:
> Too often people look at one benchmark -- speed in execution to determine
> what the best language is. Is Rust better than Go because it can run a
> benchmark faster? The problem the original developers were trying to s
Too often people look at one benchmark -- speed in execution to determine
what the best language is. Is Rust better than Go because it can run a
benchmark faster? The problem the original developers were trying to solve
wasn't that C/C++ or other languages couldn't run fast enough, Ken Thompson
two comments
a) use many cores. Suddenly your Go code runs circles around everything
else-- i.e. those
languages you mention where doing multicore in a pain. The view
that other languages are faster comes from an age long ago of single core
machines.
b) rather than pre-mature optimization, the
