How deeply does Go in Practice, Second Edition cover memory management model?

Contrasts manual management, garbage collection, borrow checking, and smart pointers without explaining their implementation internals.

Memory management model

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Memory management is the allocation, use, lifetime control, and reclamation of memory occupied by program data.

Go uses a runtime and garbage-collection system to reduce the day-to-day burden of memory management compared with C, where memory is intentionally managed without a garbage collector. section 1.3.1

This model suits systems, server, and cloud applications, but Go’s runtime and garbage collector are a poor fit for embedded systems with limited resources. section 1.3

Comparable memory-management approaches include:

Rust uses a borrow checker for more granular control over variable and data lifetimes. section 1.3.2
Zig provides no garbage collection by default and uses smart pointers for memory safety. section 1.3.2
C exposes risks including memory leaks and buffer overflows when memory is managed manually. section 1.3.1

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context managementpart of · Context management is the deliberate control of resources and information within an execution or interaction context, including their acquisition, organization, retention, use, and cleanup.
sliding windowincludes · A sliding window is a bounded region over an ordered sequence or time range that advances, updating which elements fall within it.
garbage collectionimplemented by · Garbage collection is an automated memory- or storage-management process that identifies objects or data no longer reachable or needed and reclaims or deletes them.
reference countingimplemented by · Reference counting is a memory-management technique that tracks references to an object or value and can reclaim it when its reference count reaches zero.
data structureused by · A data structure is an organized representation of data and its relationships that supports defined operations for storing, accessing, or modifying it.

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