Link: A deep dive into the Go memory allocator

August 31, 2018

Allocator Wrestling is a summary of Eben Freeman's talk from GopherCon 2018 on the Go memory allocator (via, and see also) and its garbage collection system. The slides are here (via) and have more details and elaborations on various things than the livebloged summary, although you probably want to read both (good talks are rarely entirely captured by their slides).

I love seeing under the hood of a complex system this way, and it's probably helped me move towards understanding some things about how much memory Go programs use (or appear to use).

Written on 31 August 2018.
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