That is correct. On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, Josh Hoak <jrh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To clarify, the GC method has different behavior than how the background > garbage collector works. GC calls gcStart with blocking mode, whereas the > normal background garbage collector is called from proc.go > <https://golang.org/src/runtime/proc.go> and malloc.go > <https://golang.org/src/runtime/malloc.go> with non-blocking mode. As I > read the code, GC eschews the fancy concurrent behavior of the new garbage > collector. > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Rick Hudson <r...@golang.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','r...@golang.org');>> wrote: > >> The documentation is correct. The current runtime.GC() implementation >> invokes a Stop The World (STW) GC that completes before runtime.GC() >> returns. It is useful when doing benchmarking to avoid some of the >> non-determinism caused by the GC. >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','i...@golang.org');>> wrote: >> >>> [ +rlh, austin ] >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Carlos <uldericofi...@gmail.com >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','uldericofi...@gmail.com');>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > >>> > In https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#GC it says: >>> > >>> >> It may also block the entire program. >>> > >>> > >>> > Is this still correct? I understand that GC still pauses, but being >>> under >>> > 100us mark I wonder this affirmative still makes sense. >>> > >>> > All in all, if it does block, it will block no longer than 100us. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > - cc >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups >>> > "golang-nuts" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an >>> > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','golang-nuts%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> >>> . >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','golang-nuts%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
