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		iainmerrick on Dec 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice Yes, but atomics are pretty slow.

staticassertion on Dec 4, 2016 [–]

I guess, but that doesn't seem that bad.

> maddeningly and frightenly hard to do efficiently.

It definitely doesn't seem maddening or frightening. I'm not saying a GC isn't stricly better (because I'm unsure either way) but arc doesn't seem like some awful thing.

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