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What do you mean by "impressive as hell"? From my (limited) understanding Go's GC is average.
by Zababa 5y ago
What do you mean by "impressive as hell"? From my (limited) understanding Go's GC is average.
- adkadskhj 5y agoI don't know this field, perhaps my bar is low because of Python lol, but Go's GC has very short GC pauses. So short that it makes non-GC'd usecases less attractive imo. My big issue with Go's GC, or GC's in general, is consistency. Go's GC can still be variable in pause time iirc. But it's been ~3 years since i've worked in it - so maybe my memory is wrong :)
- Zababa 5y agoFrom what I understand Python uses reference counting, which is a type of garbage collection that allows you to have deterministic performance, almost no "pauses" but at the cost of performance. About the consistency, I think that's not a GC problem in general. For example, Java's ZGC has constant pause times: https://malloc.se/blog/zgc-jdk16 https://malloc.se/blog/zgc-jdk16.