On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 17:03:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 2/16/14, 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign
of FUD.
The whole thread is wrong-headed.
Thanks for mentioning this. It's an interesting thread. I
posted a response:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/rxOz-QMyHr4/BbNR_H1zyKkJ
Andrei
The fears about "slow code" are especially odd since ad-hoc
templates are an important tool to force constant folding and
many optimizations that requires inlining.
Moreover Go with first its class interface{} values will pay a
heavy price in dynamic dispatch, something that is optional and
not really "pay what you use".
Granted code bloat is a real thing and you _might_ have
instruction cache problems, but the problem only ever show itself
when the working set of code exceed the instruction cache
capacity. Ie. a huge executable might not be a good predictor for
reduced instruction cache efficiency.
