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Re:Why I love Go by remus on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:50AM (#15860406)
>> A generational collector is currently under development (but won't be in 1.10).

> Does it? Do you have a link?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gCsFxXamW8RRvOe5hECz98Ft...

This is the original proposal, although I believe it has evolved significantly during development (in testing some of the proposed ideas didn't pan out as expected).

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Re:Why I love Go by pcwalton on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:38AM (#15862449)
That's not really a generational collector, and it doesn't achieve the main benefit of one: bump allocation in the nursery.
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