On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 04:03:36PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: [...] > In the current implementations of Go, Tickers are not garbage > collected. They run until they are stopped. So if you don't stop a > ticker, it will keep ticking until your program exits. > > (It is possible that future implementations will garbage collect > Tickers, but it still won't hurt to stop a ticker that you no longer > need.)
Do I understand correctly, that a stopped Tiker is not garbage collected, too? IOW, stopping a Ticker merely makes it not waste CPU time but it will still float in memory. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/20200617142227.5et3eb2ygi3ngh3c%40carbon.