Chris Torek wrote: > You pay (sometimes noticeably) for the GC, but the price is not > too bad in less time-critical situations. The GC has a few short > stop-the-world points but since Go 1.6 or so, it's pretty smooth, > unlike what I remember from 1980s Lisp systems. :-) I'm guessing those 1980s Lisp systems would also be pretty smooth on 2020s hardware.