Go Language Memory Management and Garbage Collection

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To deplete, merge and delete this: Go Concepts - Memory Model

Overview

Stack

Heap

Variable Deallocation

Aslo see:

Variables

Garbage Collection

Garbage collector is a subsystem of the interpreter that handles de-allocation of memory that is not needed by the program anymore. Garbage collectors can naturally assist interpreted languages, because there is an interpreter. Go is a compiled language, but is different in this respect: it does have garbage collection built into it.

The Go compiler decides where a variable is allocated: on the stack or on the heap.