Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/measuring-argument-passing-in-go-and-cpp.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Introduction The following document investigates the performance of passing arguments to functions in Go, and compare that to C++. This is a follow-up to an earlier article I wrote …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/measuring-errors-vs-exceptions-in-go-and-cpp.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Introduction The following document investigates the performance of signalling errors from functions in Go and C++. In contrast with the previous analyses that focused on a single topic, here …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-executable-size-visualization-with-d3.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Note Erratum (2019-04-02): The increase in binary size from CockroachDB v1.0 to v19.2 is 94%/125%, not 194%/225% as initially written. The increase in source code …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-calling-convention-x86-64-2020.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Introduction Two years ago, this article reviewed the low-level code generation of the Go compiler, as of version 1.10. A few things have changed since, and so an …| dr knz @ work
Note The latest version of this document can be found online at https://dr-knz.net/go-errors-vs-exceptions-2020.html. Alternate formats: Source, PDF. Introduction Back in 2018, we compared empirically the performance overheads of Go and C++ with regards to the low-level calling convention: to pass arguments, to return multiple values, and …| dr knz @ work
