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by meirelles 2325 days ago
The Twitch folks were facing a related situation with the GC. They developed a workaround that they called Ballast, reducing the overall latency and making it more predictable. Quite impressive results [0].

The Go's GC is groundbreaking in several aspects, but probably needs to provide ways to fine-tune it. Posts like this make me believe that one-size-fits-all settings are yet to be seen.

[0]: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i...