Memory-Management
Go's Value Philosophy: Part 2 - Escape Analysis and Performance
reading time: 13 minutes
The Go compiler decides whether your values live on the stack or heap through escape analysis. Understanding this mechanism explains Go’s performance characteristics and helps you write faster code without sacrificing clarity.
The Python Paradox: How Python Dominates Big Data Despite the GIL
reading time: 13 minutes
Discover why Python dominates big data despite the GIL: Python coordinates, C/Rust/JVM executes. Learn how NumPy, pandas, Polars, and PySpark bypass the GIL for true parallelism.
The Price of Everything Being an Object in Python
reading time: 14 minutes
All Python developers know that everything in Python is an object. But at what cost? A deep dive into Python’s heap-only memory model and the 28-byte overhead of storing a simple integer.