seven questions, the same to both, and the document each answer is written in
Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.
Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.
Every answer comes from the language's own page or its standard. Checked 4 August 2026.
Both languages have a garbage collector and both keep memory away from the programmer, which is why they are so often put side by side. They part company on concurrency: in Go goroutines and channels are part of the language itself, while the default Python build still holds a global lock under which one thread at a time executes bytecode.
This is not «Python has no threads»: the threads are real, and they work while waiting on a network or a disk. But since October 2025 the story has a sequel — a build without the GIL is officially supported from version 3.14, though it is not yet the default. The table row therefore describes today's standard build, not a permanent property of the language.
Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 6 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.
ten tasks, the year of each, the system, the figure — and the human it was measured against
who published each standard, when, what it does to the sound, and how many bits per second it allows
two scales · 1000 and 1024 · why a drive looks smaller
main axis and cross axis · which property belongs to which