crawshaw isn't wrong -- and he's also the guy working on Android support. Go's GC scans pointers in the heap. - A 10GB heap with one single heap-allocated []by

crawshaw isn't wrong -- and he's also the guy working on Android support. Go's GC scans pointers in the heap. - A 10GB heap with one single heap-allocated []byte will have short <1ms pauses. - A 512MB heap with 500k heap-allocated []byte will have long pauses.