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		L-four on June 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go: Sentinel errors and errors.Is() slow your code... It shouldn't surprise anyone that a checking a bool is faster than calling a function and checking the bool it returns.

jay-barronville on June 1, 2024 [–]

The function call itself isn’t really the culprit (the cost of the function call itself is negligible in this case). It’s the implementation of the function [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40542102

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