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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by jaten on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:52PM (#22240167)
just use an off heap hash table. simple. https://github.com/glycerine/offheap

Also, as others have said, lots of big GC improvements were ignored by insisting on go1.9.2 and not the latest.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by favorited on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:35PM (#22243183)
The graphs are from 1.9.2, but the author said they tried 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10 and saw the same thing.
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