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by pcwalton 3639 days ago
> Golang's more recent async GC changes begin to resemble Erlang's per-process GC in how they would affect overall system performance.

They resemble generational GC more than anything. Generational GC has some of the advantages of Erlang (though I think the traditional HotSpot generational GC will end up working better than the one Go is going with) in the minor collections, but not in the major collections.