Hands-On High Performance with Go

Min element and max element

We can find the smallest and largest values within a dataset using the min_element and max_element algorithms respectively. We can implement min_element and max_element in Go using a simple iterator:

1. First, we'll write a function to find the smallest integer in the slice:

package mainimport "fmt"func findMinInt(a []int) int {  var minInt int = a[0]  for _, i := range a {    if minInt > i {      minInt = i    }  }  return minInt}

2. Next, we will follow the same process, but will attempt to find the largest integer in the slice:

func findMaxInt(b []int) int {  var max int = b[0]  for _, i := range b {    if max < i {      max = i    }  }  return max}

3. Lastly, we'll use these functions to print the resulting minimum and maximum values:

func ...