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The title of Go's GC announcement is "Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity", and I think that a variation of that would be a better title for this. So
by Jabbles 10y ago
The title of Go's GC announcement is "Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity", and I think that a variation of that would be a better title for this. Some users may prefer a different tradeoff, and I think it's important to know that there is a tradeoff. But as this article says "I have no doubt that many Go users are very happy with the new runtime.", and that seems like a worthwhile metric.
https://blog.golang.org/go15gc https://blog.golang.org/go15gc
- fropelfizz 10y ago> But as this article says "I have no doubt that many Go users are very happy with the new runtime.", and that seems like a worthwhile metric. A metric for what? For it making many Go users very happy, or for making rather big claims like "future of GC"?
- Jabbles 10y agoMaking your users happy seems like a reasonable goal. Neither the article nor the Go announcement suggest this is the "future of GC".
- boryas 10y agoFirst line of the Go announcement: "Go is building a garbage collector (GC) not only for 2015 but for 2025 and beyond" to me, that suggests they think they have the future of GC
- Merovius 10y agoThere is a difference between "a future-proof GC" and "the future of GC".
- alanbernstein 10y agoI thought it was implied that they were talking about a GC for Go specifically.
- draw_down 10y agoThat there are tradeoffs is the whole point, the messaging makes it sound like there aren't.
- weberc2 10y agoThe title says "prioritizing"; if that's not synonymous with "making tradeoffs", I don't know what is.