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> It wasn't the norm until Go focused on it though It's still not the norm, but the point is that those were available > and "sub milliseconds" is not a high

> It wasn't the norm until Go focused on it though It's still not the norm, but the point is that those were available > and "sub milliseconds" is not a high bar. Malloc is much much faster than that. Malloc is not guaranteed to return in that time frame. The sub-millisecond latency of these GCs is a real-time guarantee.

IshKebab 3y ago
> Malloc is not guaranteed to return in that time frame No but in practice it always does.
- naasking 3y ago
  It doesn't though, which is why malloc is rarely used in embedded and realtime systems.