On: Go 1.4+ Garbage Collection Plan and Roadmap

[jblow]

Availability of 40ms out of every 50ms... how many 9s is that? Oh wait.

"Go, the language with zero nines of availability."

[kyrra → jblow]

From my understanding, this only happens when the GC is run. Currently (Go1.3) the GC runs every 5 minutes or unless you manually invoke it. Currently the GC will stop the world and do the entire cleanup at once. From my understanding of this, the GC will do the cleanup in small 10ms bursts, so you won't have a 200ms pause every 5 minutes.

[andrewchambers → jblow]

What you are saying is false.

Even erlang will have some pause times, that has nothing to do with availability. And as mentioned, this is only when GC pauses happen.