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Cloudflare Praises Golang PGO For Significant CPU Savings
Released over a year ago was Golang 1.20 with support for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) and has since been improved with Go 1.21 for 2~7% faster Go binaries thanks to this optimization approach also found with other compilers
The engineers at Cloudflare have put out a blog post this week praising Go's PGO support and the CPU savings they are seeing as a result. With Cloudflare having some Go-based services that rely on thousands of CPU Cores worldwide, they recently took to exploring Golang's PGO impact on their infrastructure. More details over on the Cloudflare blog.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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