diff --git a/doc/go_faq.html b/doc/go_faq.html index 23df178feb..13dc43284e 100644 --- a/doc/go_faq.html +++ b/doc/go_faq.html @@ -2348,9 +2348,9 @@ simpler because they don't need to specify how memory is managed across them.

-The current implementation is a mark-and-sweep collector that runs -in parallel with the main program on a separate CPU core if the -machine is a multiprocessor. +The current implementation is a mark-and-sweep collector. +If the machine is a multiprocessor, it runs on a separate CPU +core in parallel with the main program. Major work on the collector in recent years has reduced pause times often to the sub-millisecond range, even for large heaps, all but eliminating one of the major objections to garbage collection