post on using go 1.5 and GC latency

[via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Yes, Go has sacrificed some compute performance in favour of 
latency and convenience. They have also released GC improvement 
plans for 1.6:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kBx98ulj5V5M9Zdeamy7v6ofZXX3yPziAf0V27A64Mo/edit

It is rather obvious that  a building a good concurrent GC is a 
time consuming effort.