Yeah, and they can collect the unreachable objects in the array when no references exist to the array itself.
From the QCon talk linked to in the slides it sounds like the Go GC is benefiting from the reduced number of objects being allocated and the fact that those objects can never move. Makes things a lot simpler if you can get away with it, but I can imagine a reference into an array, and the inability to move objects could combine in bad ways if you're unlucky.
From the QCon talk linked to in the slides it sounds like the Go GC is benefiting from the reduced number of objects being allocated and the fact that those objects can never move. Makes things a lot simpler if you can get away with it, but I can imagine a reference into an array, and the inability to move objects could combine in bad ways if you're unlucky.