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sausagefeet on March 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python

Totally, you just don't see some things after a long time. I haven't read the code but people mentioned the author is using malloc in a lot of places, you wont' see ill effects from memory fragmentation with a quick benchmark, it could take hours or days to see how large of holes you have in your memory space.

ootachi on March 21, 2012 [–]

And in Go, they aren't running long enough to see the GC kick in. I suspect the overhead of GC will be significant without tuning.

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