How bad can Python stop-the-world pauses get? (opens in new tab)

When programming, we need to allocate memory, and then deallocate it. If you program in C, you get used to malloc/free functions. Sadly, this leaves you vulnerable to memory leaks: unrecovered memory. Most popular programming languages today use automated memory management: Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, Go, Swift and so forth. There are essentially two types … Continue reading How bad can Python stop-the-world pauses get?