For the last few years, I've been developing caching library, and today I'd like to talk about the evolution of caches in Go and where we stand today. Especially since Go 1.24 was officially supposed to focus on caching improvements, but I haven't heard much news about them - time to fix that . On-heap VS Off-heap¶ Before we begin, I believe it’s important to mention that in programming languages with GC (such as Go), caching libraries are divided into two main types: on-heap and off-heap. On-he...