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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by mister_hn on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:05AM (#21680692)
yeah but what's the point of a GC when you want to do manually the operations?
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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by Dylan16807 on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:27AM (#21680797)
So that you can put the hottest 5% under [semi-]manual control and let the GC do the rest.
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Re:Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love... by stiray on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:47AM (#21680870)
Exactly this. :) I am quite familiar with c++ (no expirience i D) but for fast little projects go is great, I wouldnt mind having more control over GC.
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