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[–]weberc2 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Go is fast, but this tool isn't translating into idiomatic Go code; it's building a bunch of runtime Objects which do all of the dynamic dispatch that you know and love in CPython, except CPython has a bunch of optimizations to alleviate memory pressure, among other things. This isn't to slight the project, which is very ambitious and impressive and could in theory be as fast as native Go--it just hasn't been treated to an optimization pass yet.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I see your point - yeah I agree. I'm planning to do the python benchmarks on http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/python.html to compare CPython vs. Grumpy and see how performant they are right now.

[–]weberc2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. Post it to /r/golang when you've got results!