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Genuine question, from ignorance: How does Go create less garbage than Java? I can certainly appreciate that a lot of the common frameworks used in JEE developm

by mogrim 14y ago

Genuine question, from ignorance: How does Go create less garbage than Java? I can certainly appreciate that a lot of the common frameworks used in JEE development may be memory-hogs, but the language itself?

vetinari 14y ago
just iterating: for (Object o: collection) { } causes memory allocation. If you are interested, android team at had several talks at Google I/O (not just 2012) about optimizing memory usage.
- mogrim 14y ago
  Cheers, will check those out.