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Re:Official Go support by jesstaa on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @03:42AM (#8360311)
Most concurrent C programs of a reasonable size eventually have some kind of big global lock. The linux kernel had one for a long time and it took a lot of effort to add more fine grained locking. Similarly most large C programs have a garbage collector of some kind.
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Re:Official Go support by pjc50 on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:10AM (#8360489)
most large C programs have a garbage collector of some kind

[citation needed] - the vast majority of Linux software is C or C++ and I can't immediately think of any with GC. It's not normally assumed, everyone does explicit deallocation, possibly ending up writing their own slab or pool allocators.

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