My journey trying to optimize the Go compiler
At EDGE we write a lot of Go, and we love it for various reasons, one of them being speed. One day I got into a situation where I need to assign an int to a variable based on another string value.
Sounds easy right? well yes, but this particular use case awakened the beast in me and made me think what’s the best way to do it.
The journey finished by me contributing to the language compiler and make map lookups faster.