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		kgeist on June 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Surprising result while transpiling C to Go Not only that, shared_ptr is also popular in such codebases, and shared_ptr usually has an additional allocation to store reference count in the "control block".

cogman10 on June 22, 2022 [–]

shared_ptr is nothing more than low latency GC that can't handle cycles. It's the extreme end of the latency throughput tradeoff.

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