[go-nuts] Re: Go 1.17 is released

2021-08-18 Thread jfcg...@gmail.com
Hi, I benchmarked sorty v1.0.18 on an old laptop with Core i5-4210M CPU & Manjaro Linux, between Go 1.16.7 and 1.17 (o for optimization flags, in seconds): *16**16o* *17**17o* Sorting uint32 sort.Slice|17.25|16.03|14.95|14.00 sorty-1| 6.6

[go-nuts] Re: Go 1.17 is released

2021-08-17 Thread ben...@gmail.com
Thank you, Go team, for all your work on this! I (and I think many others!) love all these behind-the-scenes changes that make our lives better. I went to look for that 5% performance boost in my GoAWK interpreter (due to the new register-based calling convention), and found a 38% improvement i