A *nearly free* allocation is still more expensive than being able to not alloca...

masklinn on Feb 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A visual guide to the Go memory allocator from scr...

A nearly free allocation is still more expensive than being able to not allocate at all, and the nearly free allocation will also add to the GC's workload.

pjmlp on Feb 21, 2019 [–]

Depends pretty much on which GC algorithm is being used.