Memory Layout in Go: Structs, Alignment, and Cache Performance

This is the JVM false-sharing problem in a different language. The rules differ slightly, the tooling differs, but the underlying hardware constraint — cache lines are 64 bytes and sharing one across goroutines is expensive — is identical. ...

August 17, 2022 · 5 min · MW
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