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I have no doubt it's going to be strictly smaller, it's just the difference could be too small to care. Like say you are making a server, and each client has 1

by theamk 2y ago

I have no doubt it's going to be strictly smaller, it's just the difference could be too small to care. Like say you are making a server, and each client has 16KB of state. Then memory usage would be 17KB in Node vs 19 KB in Go. Smaller? Yes. Smaller enough that you want to rewrite the whole app? Probably not.

vlovich123 2y ago
But it wouldn’t necessarily be 17kib vs 19kib then. It would be reasonable to assume that larger context would be paired with more stack usage so it’s 17kib vs 21 or 25kib and that’s 20-40% more memory being required for Go. That can be quite substantial as 1M concurrent clients represents a case where that memory starts becoming quite a premium.