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How to spot and fix memory leaks in Go.

 A memory leak is a faulty condition where a program fails to free up memory it no longer needs. If left unaddressed, memory leaks result in ever-increasing memory usage, which in turn can lead to degraded performance, system instability, and application crashes.

Most modern programming languages include a built-in mechanism to protect against this problem, with garbage collection being the most common. Go has a garbage collector (GC) that does a very good job of managing memory. Garbage collectors such as the Go GC automatically track down memory that is no longer used and return it back to the system. read more...

 

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