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You're welcome to benchmark it yourself. I got it from [1] which is a pretty recent comparison.

[1] http://www.jtolds.com/writing/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-an...

GP said meaningless, not wrong

I found switching from channels to plain ol' queues to be an enormous performance improvement in a program sending hundreds of millions of messages, though I do agree in general that most programmers won't need to care about it.

The program was a financial model backtesting framework which I ended up rewriting in Rust because Go was simply too slow for what I wanted to do.

Relevant: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/go-performance-tales/

This is great, thanks!

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