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Go in Practice
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Go in Practice

by Matt Butcher, Matt Farina
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
9h 28m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 3. Concurrency in Go

This chapter covers

  • Understanding Go’s concurrency model
  • Using goroutines for concurrent processing
  • Locking and waiting
  • Using channels for communication between goroutines
  • Strategically closing channels

This chapter presents Go’s concurrency model. Unlike many recent procedural and object-oriented languages, Go doesn’t provide a threading model for concurrency. Instead, it uses goroutines and channels. Concurrency is cheap (resource-wise) and much easier to manage than traditional thread pools. This chapter first focuses on goroutines, functions capable of running concurrently. Then it dives into channels, Go’s mechanism for communicating between goroutines.

3.1. Understanding Go’s concurrency model

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