Re:Go’s march to low-latency GC
by topspin on Thursday July 07, 2016 @04:58PM
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If it's not supposed to be interesting, why do so many that have found themselves running up against the limits of GC in their chosen language/platform/implementation end up writing epic blog posts that represent months or years of work and/or presenting their hard one solutions at conferences? There certainly seems to be a lot of people that end up having to be very interested in solving their GC problems once their systems grow to non-trivial size, and they all seem to be relearning and resolving the same set of problems.
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>If it's not supposed to be interesting, why do so many that have found themselves running up against the limits of GC in their chosen language/platform/implementation end up writing epic blog posts that represent months or years of work and/or presenting their hard one solutions at conferences?
Because they care about improving actual, existing, languages, with actual, existing, ecosystems, not doing cutting edge academic memory management research.
>and they all seem to be relearning and resolving the same set of problems.
So like architects relearn and resolve the same problems, about building bridges, skyscrapers, condos etc -- instead of designing some new structures to replace them?