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mogrim on Aug 31, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: "100% of our production system is now running Go"

Genuine question, from ignorance: How does Go create less garbage than Java? I can certainly appreciate that a lot of the common frameworks used in JEE development may be memory-hogs, but the language itself?

vetinari on Aug 31, 2012 [–]

just iterating:

  for (Object o: collection) {
  }

causes memory allocation.

If you are interested, android team at had several talks at Google I/O (not just 2012) about optimizing memory usage.

mogrim on Sept 1, 2012 | [–]

Cheers, will check those out.

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