If you enjoyed this, or if you need more control over some memory allocations in Go, please have a look at this package I wrote. I would love to have some feedback or have someone else use it.
It bypasses the GC altogether by allocating its own memory separately from the runtime. It also disallows pointer types in allocations, but replaces them with a Reference[T] type, which offers the same functionality. Freeing memory is manual though - so you can't rely on anything being garbage collected.
These custom allocators in Go tend to be arena's intended to support groups of allocations which live and die together. But the offheap package was intended to build large long-lived datastructures with zero garbage collection cost. Things like large in-memory caches or databases.
If you enjoyed this, or if you need more control over some memory allocations in Go, please have a look at this package I wrote. I would love to have some feedback or have someone else use it.
https://github.com/fmstephe/memorymanager
It bypasses the GC altogether by allocating its own memory separately from the runtime. It also disallows pointer types in allocations, but replaces them with a Reference[T] type, which offers the same functionality. Freeing memory is manual though - so you can't rely on anything being garbage collected.
These custom allocators in Go tend to be arena's intended to support groups of allocations which live and die together. But the offheap package was intended to build large long-lived datastructures with zero garbage collection cost. Things like large in-memory caches or databases.