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>1) Lack of a garbage collector does not make your program faster, it makes the performance more easily predictable in terms of latency. AFAIK, some time ago n
by pod_krad 2y ago
>1) Lack of a garbage collector does not make your program faster, it makes the performance more easily predictable in terms of latency.
AFAIK, some time ago non-predicable GC behavior was the reason why Discord migrated from Golang to Rust. Also predictable latency is important for real-time applications.