Comment by fabriceleal

I believe Go is compiled [1][2]. Isn't a comparison with something like Haskell [3] more fair?

[1] http://golang.org/doc/faq#Implementation

[2] http://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Compile_and_run_Go_program

[3] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...