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GopherCon 2015: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem - Rick Hudson

Gopher Academy · talk · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesCompilers, interpreters & program analysisSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

Rick Hudson's GopherCon 2015 talk on Go 1.5's new low-latency concurrent garbage collector. It covers the motivation, performance numbers, technical challenges and why the approach fits Go.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as the authoritative source on Go's GC pause improvements, and later revisited when GC latency claims were challenged.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “you might also find Rick Hudson's talk on GC improvements in Go 1.5 interesting”

    Talk on GC improvements in Go 1.5.

    shawnps, 2015-10 · Recommendation · in “Golang proposal: Dense mark bits and sweep-free allocation”

  2. “Rick Hudson gave a nice update on Go's GC improves at GopherCon 2015”

    Nice update on Go's GC improvements.

    kelseyhightower, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go”

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Topics: golang, garbage collector, gc latency, go 1.5, gophercon

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