Golang - How to do Benchmarking

Performance matters — especially when dealing with large-scale systems or performance-critical code. Go (Golang) provides first-class support for benchmarking via the testing package. This article walks you through the fundamentals of benchmarking in Go: what it is, why it's important, and how to run benchmarks to compare multiple functions.

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Golang - How to do Benchmarking

Performance matters — especially when dealing with large-scale systems or performance-critical code. Go (Golang) provides first-class support for benchmarking via the testing package. This article walks you through the fundamentals of benchmarking in Go: what it is, why it's important, and how to run benchmarks to compare multiple functions.