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		dded on Jan 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Another go at Go failed Well, yes, compile-time generics are compile-time. That's why I said "runtime".

willvarfar on Jan 8, 2014 [–]

Yes, but you are recommending he do that in Go, so by having an extra array lookup you'd be further slowing down the Go program, which he says is 5x slower than the Java program already.

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