Profiling Go Programs

Teaches disciplined CPU and memory profiling before guessing about performance problems.

• Author: Russ Cox
• Authority: primary
• Kind: blog
• URL: https://go.dev/blog/profiling-go-programs

What it covers

• pprof workflow
• CPU and memory profiling
• measurement-first performance tuning

Why authoritative

Foundational Go performance guidance from Russ Cox.

Use when

• how should I profile this Go program
• is this performance issue worth profiling first
• how do I use pprof here

Keywords

• profiling, pprof, cpu profile, memory profile, performance

Used by

• benchmarks
• profiling