cmd/keeper: disable GC for zkvm execution #32638
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ZKVMs are constrained environments that liberally allocate memory and never release it. In this context, using the GC is only going to cause issues down the road, and slow things down in any case.
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ZKVMs are constrained environments that liberally allocate memory and never release it. In this context, using the GC is only going to cause issues down the road, and slow things down in any case.
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ZKVMs are constrained environments that liberally allocate memory and never release it. In this context, using the GC is only going to cause issues down the road, and slow things down in any case.
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ZKVMs are constrained environments that liberally allocate memory and never release it. In this context, using the GC is only going to cause issues down the road, and slow things down in any case.
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ZKVMs are constrained environments that liberally allocate memory and never release it. In this context, using the GC is only going to cause issues down the road, and slow things down in any case.