On: Caddy 0.9 Released with All New Core

[ffggvv]

> There is also the question of Go garbage collector performance and its over head, there is no GC pauses with C.

Malloc/free are not cheap either.

[spriggan3 → ffggvv]

> Malloc/free are not cheap either.

They are still way cheaper than GC pauses in Go.

[SEJeff → spriggan3]

The Go GC with 1.5+ (and especially the work going on currently for 1.7) makes it all but unnoticeable for the majority of non-soft realtime (think HFT) systems:

https://talks.golang.org/2015/go-gc.pdf

For 99% of users, it is simply not noticeable anymore. Also note that I've worked at said HFT nanosecond latency types of firms the past 9 or so years.