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GC changes are probably most exciting ( deference to the support for Plan 9 ;) ) I still can't tell if it's evolved beyond a mark-and-sweep - I have to assume
by nkozyra 12y ago
GC changes are probably most exciting ( deference to the support for Plan 9 ;) )
I still can't tell if it's evolved beyond a mark-and-sweep - I have to assume no - we've heard the GC would be seeing improvements and that the current (now older) method was stop-gap.
- enneff 12y agoThis is still the mark and sweep collector. We hope to veg begin work on a new GC over the next few months.
- Zariel 12y agoFrom the release notes, >> The garbage collector has been sped up, using a concurrent sweep algorithm, better parallelization, and larger pages. The cumulative effect can be a 50-70% reduction in collector pause time.
- 4ad 12y agoMinor note. Go had some form of Plan 9 support for years, mostly broken though, we just made it much much better this release.
- nkozyra 12y agoI would have assumed Plan 9 would have been supported in some capacity for obvious reasons,