On Wednesday, 22 March 2017 19:04:36 UTC+11, T L wrote: > > In this article: https://blog.golang.org/go15gc , it mentions > > ..., The GC visits all *roots*, which are objects directly accessible by >> the application such as globals and things on the stack, and colors these >> grey. ... > > > It lists two kinds of root objects: globals and objects on stacks. > My question is how objects on heap will be visited? >
By walking the heap (there are some optimisations to avoid areas of memory where no objects are known to be stored) > For every object on heap, is it always been referenced by another global > object or another object on a stack? > Yes, otherwise it's garbage :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
