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Mastering Go - Second Edition
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Mastering Go - Second Edition

by Mihalis Tsoukalos
August 2019
Beginner to intermediate
798 pages
17h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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More about the operation of the Go garbage collector

This section will talk more about the Go garbage collector and present additional information about its activities. The main concern of the Go garbage collector is low latency, which basically means short pauses in its operation in order to have a real-time operation. On the other hand, what a program does is create new objects and manipulate existing objects with pointers all the time. This process can end up creating objects that cannot be accessed anymore because there are no pointers pointing to these objects. These objects are then garbage and wait for the garbage collector to clean them up and free their memory space. After that, the memory space that has been freed is ready to be ...

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