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I think Go has mandatory garbage collection. I think you can turn it off, but you can't manually manage memory. Manually managing memory is important when you
by simula67 9y ago
I think Go has mandatory garbage collection. I think you can turn it off, but you can't manually manage memory.
Manually managing memory is important when you are writing real-time software like operating systems. You don't want the garbage collector to kick in without being asked when you trying to complete a task within a deadline
- lukevers 9y agoYou could manually manage memory in Go if you want. Here's a few links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545873 https://github.com/teh-cmc/mmm https://github.com/teh-cmc/mmm