Garbage Collection and SetFinalizer
Explore how Go's runtime garbage collector frees unused memory automatically and how you can control memory management explicitly. Understand the use of SetFinalizer to perform custom functions before an object is freed, enhancing your Go programming skills with practical memory handling techniques.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Collecting garbage
The Go developer doesn’t have to code the release of memory for variables and structures, which are not used anymore in the program. A separate process in the Go runtime, the garbage collector, takes care of that. It starts now and then searches for variables which are not listed anymore, and frees that memory. Functionality regarding this ...
