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Go's garbage collector isn't compacting.
by bbatha 9y ago
Go's garbage collector isn't compacting.
- brlewis 9y agoMy point wasn't that garbage collection is more efficient than people think, but that "manual" memory allocation is less efficient than people think.
- pjmlp 9y agoTo the point that people used GC enabled systems programming languages to write full OSes[0], but as Joe Duffy puts on his last keynote, winning prejudice is an uphill battle. [0]- Done at Xerox PARC, DEC/Olivetti, ETHZ, Erlangen, MSR