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by gf000 113 days ago
It does give back memory nowadays.

And it's not really a VM in that sense of the word. It's a runtime, Go also has such a runtime it's just bundled.

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The Java "compiled" code isn't a native binary like in Go, it really does run in a VM. I honestly don't know if that's why they handle memory differently though.