Go, D, and the GC

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 1 18:21:12 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 1 October 2015 at 09:48:57 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 October 2015 at 09:40:09 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> Go's GC would have been optimized for Go's patterns and usage 
>> of it.
>
> It's JIT,
no?
> which usually gets optimized for patterns, the GC pattern is 
> generic: collect the garbage and do it fast.

No, no it's not. Go's GC has a massive overhead because it's 
intended to have low latency because that's what Go programs 
typically require.
Go's GC is actually pretty slow by design.


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