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Re:Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go by zurn on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:57AM (#5291063)
> I wish latency wasn't something the designers punted on.

The simplistic GC isn't part of the language design, it's a stopgap in the first version.

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Re:Bandwidth needs halved by new compression written in Go by cwzwarich on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @03:26AM (#5291290)
Do they have a standard ABI or FFI for interaction with C? If so, they probably designed the assumption of a conservative GC into it. You can always make an incompatible change, but it's a pain.
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