Go's march to low-latency GC

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 12:21 +0000, Sergey Podobry via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 11:23:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> > On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 19:49:11 UTC, Sergey Podobry wrote:
> > > 
> > > Remember that virtual address space is limited on 32-bit 
> > > platforms. Thus spawning 2000 threads 1 MB stack each will 
> > > occupy all available VA space and you'll get an allocation 
> > > failure (even if the real memory usage is low).
> > 
> > Sorry, but someone who tries to run highly concurrent server 
> > software with thousands of fibers on 32-bit platform is quite 
> > unwise and there is no point in taking such use case into 
> > account. 32-bit has its own niche with different kinds of 
> > concerns.
> 
> Agreed. I don't know why golang guys bother about it.

Maybe because they are developing a language for the 1980s?

;-)

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