Advanced garbage collectors have short pause times. In [1], the author cites Twitter statistics showing approximately two 0.5ms "pause" times per GC cycle for t

Advanced garbage collectors have short pause times. In [1], the author cites Twitter statistics showing approximately two 0.5ms "pause" times per GC cycle for the go language garbage collector, and during the GC cycle only 25% of the CPU was used by the GC. It doesn't seem like this is going to cause frame-rates to dip. To be fair, every application is going to differ, and perhaps games need tighter control of memory than a high performance GC is capable of, but automatic GC does make programming a lot easier. [1] https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote