It would be nice to quantify what the impact of this is. Go is no worse in this regard than C++ (it even uses a fork of tcmalloc for allocation) and has support

It would be nice to quantify what the impact of this is. Go is no worse in this regard than C++ (it even uses a fork of tcmalloc for allocation) and has support for value types so there is a lot less pointer chasing than in Java. Not sure how it could be done but having some numbers on this would be great.