Note: this issue - assigning to a field of a compound map value - is a
proposal at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3117
> Ian, can you clarify that for me, so the GC tracks interior pointers (to
a slice of structs) so that even if there are no references to the outer
slice it will not be GCd? That would seem to be very expensive.
Yes, the Go GC does that. It's not super expensive, but it does have more
overhead than other GCs, mostly because object headers don't work.
The additional task is just to round the pointer down to the beginning of
the object. We keep some data structures per page (8KB) that make that
computation quick.
> WellI ran some tests and that is indeed the case - but it looks like
retains a reference to the entire slice (which is expected).
Right.
> Can you point to some documentation on how the GC tracks these interior
pointers?
See src/runtime/mbitmap.go:findObject
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 9:50:41 AM UTC-8, robert engels wrote:
>
> WellI ran some tests and that is indeed the case - but it looks like
> retains a reference to the entire slice (which is expected).
>
> Can you point to some documentation on how the GC tracks these interior
> pointers?
>
> On Nov 9, 2019, at 11:03 AM, Robert Engels <ren...@ix.netcom.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> Ian, can you clarify that for me, so the GC tracks interior pointers (to a
> slice of structs) so that even if there are no references to the outer
> slice it will not be GCd? That would seem to be very expensive.
>
> On Nov 9, 2019, at 9:36 AM, sir...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for these responses.
>
> On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 22:06:38 UTC+1, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Jakob Borg <ja...@nym.se <javascript:>>
>> wrote:
>> > 2013/8/6 Ian Lance Taylor <ia...@golang.org <javascript:>>:
>> >> It is designed that way because we want to permit setting a new key in
>> >> a map to grow the hash table if necessary, moving the map around in
>> >> memory. That means that the language can not permit taking the
>> >> address of an entry in a map--if it could, it would not be possible to
>> >> move a map in memory.
>> >
>> > How come append to a slice doesn't ever need to move the contents in
>> > order to grow the slice?
>>
>> When append needs to move the contents, it gives you a slice that
>> refers to a new backing store. The old backing store still exists and
>> pointers to it are still valid. And a program could even reasonable
>> use it.
>>
>> This does mean that whether a function like this prints 2 or 100
>> depends on the details of the implementation of append.
>>
>> func main() {
>> a := append([]int{}, 1, 2, 3)
>> a = append(a, 4)
>> p := &a[1]
>> a = append(a, 5, 6, 7)
>> a[1] = 100
>> fmt.Println(*p)
>> }
>>
>> Ian
>>
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