Hal Murray via devel :
> Do you have any data on Go GC times?
Yes. They're pretty miniscule. Most Go GC is performed concurrently
with normal program execution, except for one stop-the-world phase
that typically runs on the close order of 1ms for real production
programs.
Hal Murray :
> Maybe it's time to switch to Go?
I've thought about it. It shouldn't be all that difficuly. I wrote a tol that
would help:
https://gitlab.com/esr/pytogo
> How long would it take us to rewrite, from scratch, everything in ntpclients?
Around three man-monts is my estimate.
> I
Gary E. Miller via devel :
> > Maybe it's time to switch to Go?
>
> Please, no. Go is a garbage collected language. Just what NTPsec does
> not need, random, unpredictable delays.
We're only takling client-side as yet.
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