Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap

Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by dastx on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:03AM (#21680447)

I'm confused. They say "above code" and whatnot, but I don't see any code is this article. Is this the same for everyone?

How did they allocate that 10GB byte array?

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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by karlnowak on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:22AM (#21680528)

    func main() {

        // Create a large heap allocation of 10 GiB
        ballast := make([]byte, 10<<30)

        // Application execution continues

    }

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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by bboreham on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:35PM (#21684596)

10<<30 is a lot. Perhaps you meant 2<<30?

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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by Dylan16807 on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:05PM (#21685645)

Are you confusing shifting with exponents? 10<<30 is exactly five times bigger than 2<<30.

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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by bboreham on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:21PM (#21686444)

Yes, I did.

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