Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love...
by tybit on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:30AM
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I’d also be interested in reading more.
My guess would be all the pointer chasing during marking is expensive and since Go doesn’t use a compacting GC there isn’t anything to do other than push freed memory back into the allocators internal data structures during a sweep.
My guess would be all the pointer chasing during marking is expensive and since Go doesn’t use a compacting GC there isn’t anything to do other than push freed memory back into the allocators internal data structures during a sweep.