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The Go compiler contains lots of optimizations, especially considering its age.

Can you share some more details about what those optimizations are? Can you point us to a link?

is maybe a good starting point.

You could try compiling with and without `-gcflags '-N -l'`

`-N` disables optimization and `-l` disables in-lining.

I also found this[0] page which lists some optimizations done by the compiler.

edit: You can see what the compiler emits as assembly code with `-gcflags '-S'` so you can compare the optimized vs unoptimized assembly.

go is indeed slow, cd benchmarkgames website