GoLang => assembly, speed up 450%

 Golang Weekly Issue 528: October 22, 2024

Speeding Up Calculations 450% with Go Assembly — Go’s assembler is heavily inspired by Plan 9’s (with Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, along with others, creating both). The author investigates using Go’s assembler to implement a particularly speedy SIMD (Same Instruction Multiple Data) library for Go. There’s also an interesting thread on Hacker News where Russ Cox (as rsc) adds some context.

Single instruction, multiple data - Wikipedia

SIMD describes computers with multiple processing elements that perform the same operation on multiple data points simultaneously.