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GopherCon 2015: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem - Rick Hudson
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 HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as the authoritative source on Go's GC pause improvements, and later revisited when GC latency claims were challenged.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Gopher Academy
- Topic
- go garbage collection
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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