package main import ( "fmt" "runtime" ) func printAllocs() { var m runtime.MemStats runtime.ReadMemStats(&m) fmt.Printf("%d MB\n", m.Alloc/1024/1024) } func main() { printAllocs() data := make(map[int][128]byte) // try to use 129 printAllocs() for i := 0; i < 1_000_000; i++ { data[i] = [128]byte{} } printAllocs() for i := 0; i < 1_000_000; i++ { delete(data, i) } runtime.GC() printAllocs() runtime.KeepAlive(data) }