Re:Things I like about programming in Go
by enneff on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @04:23PM
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> In practice very few people have issues on 32bit systems,
I'm not sure what the proportion of people who experience issues is (whether it's "some", "most", or "very few"), but in my anecdotal experience running several long-lived Go processes on a 32-bit VPS it hasn't been a problem.
I think it just comes down to the allocation patterns in your program. Some programs trigger the pathological behavior and others don't.
Regardless of the numbers of affected programs, I'll be glad when the issue is behind us for good.
I'm not sure what the proportion of people who experience issues is (whether it's "some", "most", or "very few"), but in my anecdotal experience running several long-lived Go processes on a 32-bit VPS it hasn't been a problem.
I think it just comes down to the allocation patterns in your program. Some programs trigger the pathological behavior and others don't.
Regardless of the numbers of affected programs, I'll be glad when the issue is behind us for good.