I was curious if reducing the capacity of slice makes that memory available to be reclaimed?
(1) Reducing capacity using a three-index: var s = make([]int64, 1e9) ... add data to s, keeping a count .. s = s[:n:n] // reduce length and capacity to number of items read (2) Reducing capacity by slicing off the front, as happens when using slice as a queue var s []int64 s = append(s, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) s = s[5:] Should I be careful to allocate a new slice and copy over, if I want to avoid that memory being pinned until the original slice goes out of scope? Thank you, Rob -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/555450b4-903b-4c65-80f5-64010d5fe0a1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
