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		DeathArrow on Nov 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go does not need a Java-style GC I like how memory management is done in Nim [1]. You can chose among several garbage collectors, manual memory management or no memory management at all, depending on what better fits your use case. [1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html

winrid on Nov 24, 2021 [–]

The default memory manager also won't do any stop the world pauses due to the way that cross thread communication works.

That's not to say the latest Java GCs aren't incredibly impressive - they are.

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