Go's type assertion seems quite slow. The added cost is too much if it has to be in a tight loop. Here are the time taken on my laptop for the following code.
https://play.golang.org/p/cA96miTkx_ chris$ time ./p count=1073741824 time taken=7.899207181s count=1073741824 time taken=300.601453ms real 0m8.205s user 0m8.163s sys 0m0.029s chris$ time luajit -e "count = 0 > for i=1, 1024*1024*1024, 1 do count = count + 1 end > print(count)" 1073741824 real 0m0.900s user 0m0.891s sys 0m0.005s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
