Green Tea 🍵 Garbage Collector Authors: Michael Knyszek, Austin Clements Updated: 15 August 2025 This issue tracks the design and implementation of the Green Tea garbage collector. As of the last up...
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ℹ️ Disclaimer This post was written while Go 1.25 is the mainstream release. Some implementation details may change as the Go team continues to refine the garbage collector. Still, the ideas here should remain useful for building an intuition about what happens under the hood and why certain design choices exist. If you need the most up-to-date specifics, always refer to the official Go source and release notes.
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When running on baremetal, however, we found two key limitations of the Go runtime so far: Systems with a lot of RAM can have a lot of allocations, prompting the Go Garbage Collector to aggressively steal CPU. 2. Applications performing hundreds of thousands of requests per second may make use of thousands of TCP sockets, bottlenecking the Go runtime’s network backend on syscalls.
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Package debug contains facilities for programs to debug themselves while they are running.
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