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The presentation redacted the stats about how this affects Google performance. I bet it saves enough CPU hours to pay the author's salary many many many times over. Good job!

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Maybe? I'm under the impression that the vast majority of Google's software is not written in Golang, though.

Agreed.

But even 1% of their software being go would still see more use than most software you or I write in our lifetimes.

dl.google.com has been golang since 2013. Imagine the traffic that application gets!

https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1

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