Chris Torek wrote:
You pay (sometimes noticeably) for the GC, but the
price is not
too bad in less time-critical situations. The GC has a few short
stop-the-world points but since Go 1.6 or so, it's pretty smooth,
unlike what I remember from 1980s Lisp systems. :-)
I'm guessing those 1980s Lisp systems would also be pretty smooth on
2020s hardware.