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Re:Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity by pcwalton on Monday August 31, 2015 @10:25PM (#10150348)
Unlikely. GC, especially non-generational GC, is a memory bound application with low arithmetic intensity and locality. The scaling will likely be sublinear, especially with that many CPUs.
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Re:Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity by tedunangst on Monday August 31, 2015 @10:55PM (#10150457)
Yes, perhaps a poor assumption. But at what point will the scaling go negative? Even 25% more throughput (same latency) seems preferable to 100% more latency (same throughput). Is it fair to assume latency will be linear with the "server" GC?
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