&gt; Or perhaps all we need is a GC race (à la JS engine race we&#x27;ve seen in the major browser) which Google might very well be starting with the recent efforts on the Go garbage collector.<p>This has been happening for a long time with Java HotSpot and Azul C4, which still represent the state of the art. Go isn&#x27;t really doing anything new—it&#x27;s still not generational, for example.