Garbage collection
#1550
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Does this thing have a GC? |
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mvertes
May 6, 2023
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Yaegi doesn’t implement escape analysis nor has its own GC. Instead it uses the GC from the Go runtime, because it runs on top of it and all the objects used and generated by the interpreter (through As far as I know, the Go spec doesn't mandate a garbage collector. |
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Yaegi doesn’t implement escape analysis nor has its own GC. Instead it uses the GC from the Go runtime, because it runs on top of it and all the objects used and generated by the interpreter (through
reflect) are already handled. We would need it, of course, if we had to target something else than the Go runtime.As far as I know, the Go spec doesn't mandate a garbage collector.