Stealthpool

stealthpool provides a memory pool that allocates blocks off-heap that will NOT be tracked by the garbage collector. The name stealthpool comes from the fact that the memory being allocated by the pool is stealthy and will not be garbage collected ever These blocks should be used in situations where you want to keep garbage collection to a bare minimum. Needless to say, since the GC will not track any of the memory, extreme care must be had in order to avoid memory leaks

Installation

go get -u github.com/Link512/stealthpool

Getting started

// initialize a pool which will allocate a maximum of 100 blocks
pool, err := stealthpool.New(100)
defer pool.Close() // ALWAYS close the pool unless you're very fond of memory leaks

// initialize a pool with custom block size and preallocated blocks
poolCustom, err := stealthpool.New(100, stealthpool.WithBlockSize(8*1024), stealthpool.WithPreAlloc(100))
defer poolCustom.Close() // ALWAYS close the pool unless you're very fond of memory leaks


block, err := poolCustom.Get()
// do some work with block
// then return it exactly as-is to the pool
err = poolCustom.Return(block)

Docs

Go docs together with examples can be found here