Comment by athorax | Hacker News Reader

Comment by athorax | Hacker News Reader

  The notion of stack vs heap allocation isn't something that even exists in the language. Users are expected to not worry about it... until, of course, until you're optimizing performance and you need to worry about it.

This is one of the best and worst aspects with Go. Anyone can write pretty performant code without having to understand the underlying memory model. If you get to the point where you are trying to optimize at this level, the benefits of using a more approachable language start to fall apart and you spend more time chasing implementation details.

In general, it is a win, since it lets you code faster and 80-90% the performance doesn't matter. Over time, you learn generally what leads to heap allocs and what doesn't. In rare hot spot, using -m will show you the allocations and you can optimize.

I would generally agree. It's good enough performance for most applications. For those that it isn't fast enough for (even with optimizations like these), it still allows for rapid prototyping to arrive at that conclusion.

I think same applies to any GC language. Ride is fun until GC starts either taking too much time, too much memory or taking too much of CPU.

At least you have the tools to understand where things get allocated.

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