The *other* features in Go 1.18
Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
The Gc Pacer in the Garbage Collector?
The g c pacer is the part of the garbage collector that decides when a new collection should happen. If you run it too little, you might be holding on to too much memory or you might be delaying some thing's happening in the run time by very long. It seems like the gc pacer was designed a while ago but overtime it's accumulated a bunch of debt and a bunch of quirks,. And they've sort of sat down inside. Ok, let's re design it in a way that it does a lot better in these h cases that weve found in production wor clothes that the old one doesn't do very well in.
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