App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 7:57 AM UTC

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you already could connect to cloudsql instances. however you needed a proxy, but not because of AppEngine, you need it because of security. either you whitelisted your ips or you used the proxy (which go appengine could already use). so with go you just needed to use https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloudsql-proxy which means you just need to change the query string. however a new feature is emerging where you…

Notable, though, that this new runtime better supports connecting to Postgres instances through the unix socket (/cloudsql/). (GCP Gopher)

Post by eiieirurjdndjd » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 11:39 AM UTC

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I actually looked at this before making my other comment. You’re absolutely right about the salt. One of the go benchmarks is basically pure cgo using vector intrinsics. It naturally blows idiomatic JS out of the water. So you might get those kind of results if that’s the kind of code you’re going to write, but it’s far from what I consider idiomatic. Another language’s proponent would be fair to point out that most…

> One of the go benchmarks is Which program? URL?

Post by jhabdas » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:26 PM UTC

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I'm the tech lead and primary software engineer on the Go runtime. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I'm super thrilled to announce that Go 1.11 is now available on App Engine! We now support... * vendoring * regular best-practice package structures * go modules * the regular Google Cloud client libraries: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-go This is a "second-generation" runt…

Hey buss, thanks for stopping by. How do you feel about the distinction between Google and Go? It sometimes feels like they're joined at the hip, something which historically had made people queasy (Java and Oracle, .NET and Microsoft, etc). Though Go is a project which came from Google, I personally feel that it better serves the interests of the Go community to treat them separately. Google receives special treatme…

Post by igouy » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 7:07 PM UTC

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I would absolutely love those numbers too. Always wondered about the working set of a minimal program, and also one with database access.

Well, there's the Techempower benchmarks at: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ You can go to the filter, turn off all languages but Go and Python, and get a general idea. There's also the old Computer Benchmark Game, which should be taken with a whole barrel of salt: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Post by igouy » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 3:53 AM UTC

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That Go pi-digits program is 50% faster than a Java program that also uses the GMP library, just like the Go program! That Go pi-digits program is only 4% faster than a PHP program that uses the GMP library. It's not enough to "point out that most languages have C FFIs" when for this arbitrary precision arithmetic task GMP is allowed and others step-up and contribute those programs.

I see. I had only looked at the source code of the Nodejs competitor. To be fair the point still stands that you need to read the source to know what is really being measured.