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Last updated over 1 year ago
Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22
over 1 year ago
Shows how much the performance of Go has improved from version 1.0...
Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22
over 1 year ago
Shows how much the performance of Go has improved from version 1.0...
The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
over 1 year ago
How I solved the One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) in Go nine...
From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo
over 2 years ago
How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to...
Code coverage for your AWK programs
over 2 years ago
This article describes GoAWK's code coverage support, which was contributed by Volodymyr...
I/O is no longer the bottleneck
over 2 years ago
In 2022, disk I/O is very fast, and not usually the performance...
microPledge: our startup that (we wish) competed with Kickstarter
almost 3 years ago
What our crowdfunding startup microPledge was, why it failed, and what we...
Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
about 3 years ago
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
Tools I use to build my website
about 3 years ago
How I build my website benhoyt.com with GitHub Pages, Jekyll, a simple...
Adding CSV support to (Go)AWK
over 3 years ago
Why and how I added proper CSV support to GoAWK, my POSIX-compatible...
Prig: like AWK, but uses Go for "scripting"
over 3 years ago
Describes Prig, which is for Processing Records In Go. It's a text...
Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
over 3 years ago
Shows how much the performance of Go has improved from version 1.2...