We Measure the Power of Cars, Computers, and Cellphones. But What About Code?

A deep dive into benchmarking in Golang

Percy Bolmér
Better Programming
Published in
11 min readFeb 12, 2021

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A device to measure voltage.
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I’m not going to lie — benchmarking is not one of my biggest strengths. I don’t do it nearly as often as I’d like. But it’s become more frequent since I started using Go as my primary language of choice. One of the reasons for this is because Go has some great built-in…

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