Allocating on the Stack - The Go Programming LanguageThe Go Blog Allocating on the Stack Keith Randall 27 February 2026 We’re always looking for ways to make Go programs faster. In the last 2 releases, we have concentrated on mitigating a particular source of slowness, heap allocations. Each time a Go program allocates memory from the heap, there’s a fairly large chunk of code that needs to run to satisfy that allocation. In addition, heap allocatio
