But the garbage collector only pauses for 100 microseconds... until the next mem...

		musicale on Nov 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Value in Go’s Simplicity But the garbage collector only pauses for 100 microseconds... until the next memory operation, when it pauses again. ;-/ More seriously, as of last year at least mark phase pauses could be significant, on the order of seconds for large heaps.