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gf000 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A case for Go as the best language for AI agents

It does give back memory nowadays.

And it's not really a VM in that sense of the word. It's a runtime, Go also has such a runtime it's just bundled.

jim33442 5 months ago [–]

The Java "compiled" code isn't a native binary like in Go, it really does run in a VM. I honestly don't know if that's why they handle memory differently though.

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