I Benchmarked fasthttp vs net/http — The Results Surprised Me

I kept hearing that fasthttp was faster than Go's standard net/http. So I decided to stop guessing and just measure it. The result? 5.6x faster. Zero heap allocations. And the benchmark is only two files. Keeping It Fair The trick to an honest benchmark: remove everything except what you're testing. Both servers use the same in-memory listener — no TCP, no network noise. Same endpoints, same response bodies. The only difference is the HTTP stack. // net/http func SimpleHandler(w