This was very interesting, but the ending was a bit abrupt. I was under the impression that there was something more that I was missing under the subscribe banner.

But to the point of the article - are there cases in which manually moving objects around to compact them in a specific area is done with golang? I don't use golang that much, and I'm sure that there are very strong arguments for not compacting the heap post-GC, but I've always wondered how it avoids crashing in the 0.0001% of cases in which heap is defragmented in such a way that there's no way to allocate a new large object

For anyone interested in this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPJkM95KpKo

Excellent optimization technique: manually copying objects to a new slice so they don't prevent the GC from releasing memory by sitting right in the middle of a page it intends to free.

But if the objects being scanned are already located on the same page, aren’t we just wasting time managing the page and tracking the objects within it?