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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by kerkeslager on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:19PM (#22241105)
> ... but that statement there doesn’t say anything about the heap size, including the size and count of live objects (i.e., not garbage).

Not sure why you got downvoted, you're actually right, I'm wrong: I misread that and/or assumed one meant the other.

That said, this is a case that should be ideal for generational GC, which Go specifically eschewed at one point. I'm not sure this is still the case, however--I have yet to wade through this[1] to update my knowledge here.

[1] https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote

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