Benchmarking your code

Benchmarking in Go is the sacred ritual where developers often embark on a quest for performance enlightenment, only to find themselves lost in a maze of micro-optimizations. It’s like preparing for a marathon by obsessively timing how fast you can tie your shoelaces, completely missing the point of the broader training regimen.

Imagine, if you will, a seasoned software developer likened to a master chef, meticulously selecting each ingredient for the perfect dish. In this culinary quest, the chef knows that the choice between Himalayan pink salt and sea salt isn’t just about taste – it’s about the subtle nuances that can elevate a dish from good to sublime. Similarly, in software development, the choice between different algorithms or data structures isn’t just about speed or memory usage on paper; it’s about understanding the intricate dance of cache misses, branch prediction, and execution pipelines. It’s...