The Conflict Between Generic Types and Performance Optimization in Go

Slices dot sort works for things like ints and strings that you can compare with less than. And then there's a variant which is called slices dot sort funk, where you supply a less function. I mean, it's not as much faster. But as you just said, it's calling through reference to a function, which is much faster than doing dynamic dispatch on the on the elements of the slice.

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