GOGC was introduced in Go 1.5, and I thought the problem was solved.

> Go 1.5’s GC ushers in a future where stop-the-world pauses are no longer a barrier to moving to a safe and secure language. It is a future where applications scale effortlessly along with hardware and as hardware becomes more powerful the GC will not be an impediment to better, more scalable software. It’s a good place to be for the next decade and beyond.

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cafxx 2 days ago | parent [-]

> GOGC was introduced in Go 1.5

yes, that's quite literally what I meant by "GOGC has always been there". 1.5 was released 10 years ago, just 3 years after 1.0.

So to summarize: there is one knob (that has been there from basically the beginning), plus a second one (if you squint hard enough: GOMAXMEM), and absolutely no plans to add further ones, or to add alternative GCs.

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pjmlp 2 days ago | parent [-]

That would be since Go exists, literally.

	▲	cafxx 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The point is that no-one is thinking to add knobs, or allow alternative GCs.