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Aside from the difficulty of changing, can you give a couple of sentences on the pros/cons? Are "moving GCs" mostly good for reducing fragmentation? I guess yo
by repsilat 8y ago
Aside from the difficulty of changing, can you give a couple of sentences on the pros/cons?
Are "moving GCs" mostly good for reducing fragmentation? I guess you'd get fewer annoying "holes" if you can compact memory, and better cache behaviour if live objects tend to be nearer to each other.
- foldr 8y agopcwalton has been outlining the cons of Go's GC on HN for quite some time :) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pcwalton+go+gc+site%3Aycombinator.com&t=he&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pcwalton+go+gc+site%3Aycombinator....