Your link says the opposite of what you posted. From the article: "To our surprise, Scala did quite a bit better than Go, with an average round trip time of ~1.6 microseconds (0.0016 milliseconds) vs. Go’s ~11 microseconds (0.011 milliseconds).", and "Notable in the opposite direction was that the Go server had a memory footprint of only about 10 MB vs. Scala’s nearly 200 MB."
I have no idea where people got the idea that Go was faster than Java, or that Java/JVM is slow in 2013. Not trying to discredit Go (its my language of choice), but to say it surpassed Java while only being around for almost 5 years is disingenuous.
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Your link says the opposite of what you posted. From the article: "To our surprise, Scala did quite a bit better than Go, with an average round trip time of ~1.6 microseconds (0.0016 milliseconds) vs. Go’s ~11 microseconds (0.011 milliseconds).", and "Notable in the opposite direction was that the Go server had a memory footprint of only about 10 MB vs. Scala’s nearly 200 MB."
I have no idea where people got the idea that Go was faster than Java, or that Java/JVM is slow in 2013. Not trying to discredit Go (its my language of choice), but to say it surpassed Java while only being around for almost 5 years is disingenuous.
nemothekid,
You're absolutely right, my apologizes, its been a while since i read that article. Thank you for the correction! Much appreciated.