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Curious how the garbage collector works.

• mikelward 6y ago
  I used a Go-based window manager called Wingo for quite a while and never noticed any performance issues.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    Go is also fully compiled to native code, big difference.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
      But it's still garbage collected. And GC should be done by the python interpreter proper, so it would be in native code.
      • pjmlp 6y ago
        A tiny portion of Python's total execution time.
        • yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
          Don't get me wrong; I expect Go to be far more performant than Python. Just, they're both garbage-collected, and I have no reason to expect GC perf (specifically) to differ.
          • pjmlp 6y ago
            Which just shows that learning about GC algorithms is a must. http://gchandbook.org/ http://gchandbook.org/ And the differences between value types, AOT compiled code execution, bytecode interpreters and FFI marshalling costs between bytecode interpreters and native libraries.