alt Hacker News> If you have a system that requires predictable latency, go is not the right language for it.
Having a garbage collector already make this the case, it is a known trade off.
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pjmlp • today at 1:56 PM
Not really, it is a matter of having the right implementation.
- https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc
- https://www.aicas.com/products-services/jamaicavm
- https://www.azul.com/products/prime
Not all GCs are born alike.
kevin_thibedeau • today at 2:43 PM
Nim's GC is deterministic when you need it.
This may have been practically true for a long time, but as Java's ZGC garbage collector proves, this is not a hard truth.
You can have world pauses that are independent of heap size, and thus predictable latency (of course, trading off some throughput, but that is almost fundamental)