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While I have no insight to their plans, perhaps a non-GC toolchain could still be used for short-lived programs (such as command line tools)? Don't even need to

by mook 7y ago

While I have no insight to their plans, perhaps a non-GC toolchain could still be used for short-lived programs (such as command line tools)? Don't even need to free anything if it's short enough, the OS can deal with it when the process exits

iampims 7y ago
You can already do this: GOGC=off [1] [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-dont-collect-my-garbage/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-dont-collect-my-garbage/
antisemiotic 7y ago
>a non-GC toolchain could still be used for short-lived programs (such as command line tools) Or missile firmware: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad...
aykevl 7y ago
https://tinygo.org/usage/important-options/ https://tinygo.org/usage/important-options/ Take a look at the `-gc` flag. The values have changed in the latest version (need to update the docs!) but it does provide an option to disable the GC entirely.