&gt;&gt; &quot;Go&#x27;s new garbage collector is a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector&quot;<p>So basically, it&#x27;s the same GC that Mike Pall had planned to implement for LuaJIT 3.0. Too bad Mike recently announced he was transitioning away from doing daily LuaJIT work.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.luajit.org&#x2F;New-Garbage-Collector" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.luajit.org&#x2F;New-Garbage-Collector</a>