🐹 During Last 12 Years Go Got Up To 24x Faster

Benchmarks are favorable for Go performance over the years. Hard work of Go developers situated it as one of the fastest programming languages

Ben Hoyt is a software engineer from New Zealand. He worked for Canonical, Compass, TripAdvisor just to name a few.

His passion for coding came from his dad who teached him the Forth language.

In his early years he implemented a Forth compiler and small operating system. The interest for these areas of computer science never blurred.

I was able to write this article because people read it on Medium.

One of his successful projects is GoAWK, an AWK interpreter with CSV support written in Go.

Lately, Ben published a quite fascinating article. In this article he benchmarked the speed of Go from the version 1.0 to 1.22.

These versions were released respectively in 2012 and 2024.

So it is a span of 12 years. The results are quite surprising. The counting words benchmark showed a 8x speed boost.

What is even more exciting is the speed of a small looping app that sums numbers. It got 24x faster!