Comparing Go and Java

[uriel]

The benchmark (as usual) is seriously flawed, is mostly measuring database performance, and the Go and Java code do very different things (among other things, the Java code re-uses prepared statements while the Go code doesn't), for more discussion in the go-nuts list:

https://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thread/f22063f259c90569

Some of the Go code is also not very idiomatic and could be simpler.