Here's an amendment to my previous timing. I compiled the Go snippit with
standard arguments (I don't know if there's a 'release' mode) and Nim with
'-d:release', then ran each executable 20 times.
Nim
---
Mean: 0.08501 ms
Median: 0.07966 ms
Std Dev.: 0.03227 ms
Lowest: 0.053365 ms
Highest: 0.175821 ms
Go
---
Mean: 5.949 ms
Median: 5.81 ms
Std Dev.: 0.5054 ms
Lowest: 5.359414 ms
Highest: 7.220875 ms
As you can see, Go's garbage collector takes quite a bit longer than Nim's...
Although it does have the benefit of being able to handle multiple threads (I
think).
