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mixedCase on April 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understand Go pointers

It's not so much about what's optimal for performance but as to which piece of state changes and which one doesn't.

Implicit pointers means you have to often think extra when shuffling data structures around.

agentgt on April 26, 2017 [–]

> Implicit pointers means you have to often think extra when shuffling data structures around.

This basically answered my question. Thank you. I don't know why I didn't make that connection.

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