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Where is it mentioned that the arena experiment has been dropped?
by MadcapJake 1y ago
Where is it mentioned that the arena experiment has been dropped?
- typical182 1y agoThe arena experiment was essentially placed on indefinite hold: > The proposal to add arenas to the standard library is on indefinite hold due to concerns about API pollution. I think the parent comment was using arenas as an example that GOEXPERIMENTs don't always move forward (like arenas), or can change while still GOEXPERIMENTs in a way that would normally not be allowed due to backward compatibility (like synctest). The arena GOEXPERIMENT has not yet been dropped as of Go 1.25, but as I understand it, the plan is to remove arenas from the runtime when 'regions' are introduced, which have similar performance benefits but a much lower API impact: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257 https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257 As discussed there, seeing how people actually used the arena GOEXPERIMENT influenced the 'regions' design.