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Optimizing a Go Package by 38147125738.8x (xnacly.me)
2 points by xnacly 7 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



? Sanity check, please. There is no processor in existence on which any operation can be performed in one-thirtieth of a nanosecond. Has their compiler optimized their entire algorithm away?


It specifically says ns/op, go test executes the operation many times and calculates the average execution time for one operation:

https://pkg.go.dev/testing#hdr-Benchmarks




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