Go 1.23 comes with a new package unique implementing interning, and a blog post about it. Interning is re-using objects of equal value instead of keeping duplicate equal objects in memory. It is…

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Go 1.23 introduces a new package, unique, for interning objects to reduce memory usage by re-using objects of equal value rather than keeping duplicates in memory. Examples include handling large strings and slicing them to create smaller substrings for efficient memory management. Interning helps in various environments like stateful web servers and batch jobs where memory resources are limited.

Interning in Go