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TechEmpower's eighth round of Web framework benchmarks are in, and there's a new face at the top of a number of the results: Go.

Google's C-like language recently celebrated its fourth birthday and its 1.2 release, so it's likely its strong showing in the most recent round of benchmarks is a product of the latest revisions to the language and its compiler. Go showed its strongest hand in the JSON serialization test, racking up the best peak performance and the lowest latency scores, and it came in high on the single-query, multiple-query, and data-updates tests. It didn't do as well in the plaintext and "fortunes" tests, however.

The high performance with JSON serialization summons a possible theory: Perhaps Go is being performance-tuned for the same set of workloads most directly associated with frameworks like Node.js.

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