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But it's not just about pure, CPU-wise language speed. We re-architected some of the software, and Go concurrency model was very helpful with that.

What I think you did is great, and I love reading about these things, but if the initial implementation was in Perl or JavaScript you would have seen more like a 10-20x speedup.

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