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		cpacia on July 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace 1.0 is a bit of an MVP. While there's tons of room for optimization, Go is still much faster. That plus the fact that the main IPFS codebase is written in Go were the main considerations.

Dowwie on July 23, 2017 [–]

Thanks for the response! So the choice wasn't driven as much by actual performance issues, that might have been solved with refactoring, re-engineering, or simply running through pypy. The catalyst was the adoption of an IPFS library written in Go.

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