You can often do this, although some runtimes treat it only as a hint and may ignore it (usually what you want). Go has some pretty strong guarantees on how lon

You can often do this, although some runtimes treat it only as a hint and may ignore it (usually what you want). Go has some pretty strong guarantees on how long it will stop the world for, which makes it much less of an issue. But the best pause is still no pause, which means no GC.