Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18February 2022 Recently I improved the performance of GoAWK – my AWK interpreter written in Go – by switching from a tree-walking interpreter to a bytecode compiler with a virtual machine interpreter. While doing that, I thought it’d be interesting to see how much the performance of Go itself has improved over the years. There are many ways programs written in Go have gotten faster: the Go team and
