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Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
Go 1.26 made Green Tea the default GC. We observe its cache-friendliness with perf, visualize the heap to see how Go allocates, and poke at a sparse-page problem a non-moving collector like Go's struggles with.
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2026 | Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap by matheusmoreira | 261 | 43 |
