[vmchale]

Curious how the garbage collector works.

[mikelward]

I used a Go-based window manager called Wingo for quite a while and never noticed any performance issues.

[pjmlp]

Go is also fully compiled to native code, big difference.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

But it's still garbage collected. And GC should be done by the python interpreter proper, so it would be in native code.

[pjmlp]

A tiny portion of Python's total execution time.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Don't get me wrong; I expect Go to be far more performant than Python. Just, they're both garbage-collected, and I have no reason to expect GC perf (specifically) to differ.

[pjmlp]

Which just shows that learning about GC algorithms is a must.

http://gchandbook.org/

And the differences between value types, AOT compiled code execution, bytecode interpreters and FFI marshalling costs between bytecode interpreters and native libraries.