I have written a bunch of tiny Go apps, and agree with you. In general, 64MB is where I set the limit on these things and there are no problems. I have some b

I have written a bunch of tiny Go apps, and agree with you. In general, 64MB is where I set the limit on these things and there are no problems. I have some big applications that literally allocate 1GB at once and they still run OK within 2GB memory limits. (Obviously, you can't do two of these operations at once, though.)