On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 6:26 AM Shubha Acharya
wrote:
>
> I have been working with buffered channels. I have stumbled upon a scenario
> where buffered channel will be closed and the receivers of the channel
> terminates before consuming all the elements in the buffer. So my question is
> will there be any issue regarding Garbage Collection of channel which
> eventually leads to memory or resource leaks because of the left out items in
> the buffer? or any other concerns that I must be aware of?
No more than, say, a slice. An unreferenced channel will be garbage
collected, which will remove references to any objects in the channel
buffer. If those objects have no other references, they too will be
garbage collected.
Ian
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