Introduction

Let’s get an overview of the Go garbage collector and learn about heaps and stacks.

We'll cover the following...

Installing Go
Heap and stack
Coding example

Installing Go

If we are going to install Go for the first time, we can start by going here. However, there is a big chance that our UNIX variant has a ready-to-install package for the Go programming language, so we might want to get Go by using our favourite package manager.

This appendix is all about the Go Garbage Collector (GC). This crucial part of Go can affect the performance of our code more than any other Go component. We will begin by talking about the heap and the stack.

Heap and stack

The heap is the place where programming ...

Course Introduction

Introduction to Go

Basic Go Data Types

Composite Data Types

Reflection and Interfaces

Go Packages and Functions

Telling a UNIX System What to Do

Go Concurrency

Building Web Services

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

Working with REST APIs

Code Testing and Profiling

Working with gRPC

Go Generics

Conclusion

Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

Introduction

Installing Go

Heap and stack