Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation
Interesting.  I&#x27;d have expected more than a 50% code expansion going to Go, maybe even 3x or 5x.<p>Similarly, he&#x27;s using 40x speedup as a rule of thumb.  I usually think of Python as 20x slower than C.<p>Personally I&#x27;d be loathe to convert a working Python system to Go, but it sounds like he had good reasons.  I do wonder a bit whether divide-and-conquer or a C extension might not have worked instead.