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> top notch garbage collection No it doesn't. The Go GC is intentionally very simple and optimised for one specific metric, where as the set of JVM garbage col
by qqssccfftt 6y ago
> top notch garbage collection
No it doesn't. The Go GC is intentionally very simple and optimised for one specific metric, where as the set of JVM garbage collectors allow you to optimise for the metric that matters to you and are tuneable for the requirements of your application. The JVM has state of the art garbage collection; Go has My First GC Algorithm.
- titzer 6y ago> The Go GC is intentionally very simple. This is simply not true. The Go GC is an example of a sophisticated non-moving concurrent collector. > optimised for one specific metric This is only partly true. Low pause time is definitely the highest priority metric, but throughput still matters. The Go GC probably has the lowest pause times of any production GC these days, outside of perhaps nonpublic custom solutions, e.g. successors to IBM's Metronome sold to specific customers.