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Green Tea GC: the insight behind Go's new garbage collector
November 02 2026 - 12:15 (45 min )
Green Tea's insight is elegant: scan spans, not objects. But how do you actually implement that? What data structures track which objects are marked vs. scanned? Why does the ownership protocol use three states? And how did span-based scanning unlock SIMD optimizations that were impossible before?
LEVEL: Advanced
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2025
Tug-of-Code: The battle for efficient iteration in Go
Iterators are a powerful tool for traversing custom data structures, enabling clean, reusable, and efficient code. In this talk, we’ll explore how iterators work in Go, from the familiar `for-range` loop to advanced patterns like pull-based iterators and mutation during iteration.
LEVEL: Intermediate
