1 Oct
2024
1 Oct
'24
5:52 p.m.
Hi Larry,
It's better, but the free() might cause a varying amount of work,
say due to coallescing.
Garbage collection these days doesn't have to be long-pause ‘stop the
world’. Go's GC thread runs concurrently with the others, for example.
https://tip.golang.org/doc/gc-guide
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Cheers, Ralph.
You can't
have your missle defense software pause to do garbage
collection when you're trying to shoot down an incoming ballistic
missile.
That's why I like reference counting. It doesn't have the long pauses
that other garbage collection systems have, when the variable goes out
of scope, you decrement, last guy frees. Seems pretty simple.