Borrowed from a comment: Garbage collection has gotten a lot of updates in the last 3 years. Why would you not take the exceedingly trivial step of just upgrad

Borrowed from a comment: Garbage collection has gotten a lot of updates in the last 3 years. Why would you not take the exceedingly trivial step of just upgrading to the latest Go stable in order to at least try for the free win? From the go 1.12 release notes: “Go 1.12 significantly improves the performance of sweeping when a large fraction of the heap remains live. This reduces allocation latency immediately following a garbage collection.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This sounds like “we just wanted to try Rust, ok?” Which is fine. But like, just say that.