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Hands-On High Performance with Go
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Hands-On High Performance with Go

by Bob Strecansky
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
8h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Goroutines – performance from the start

When Go was conceived, multi-core processors were beginning to become more and more commonplace in commercially available commodity hardware. The authors of the Go language recognized a need for concurrency within their new language. Go makes concurrent programming easy with goroutines and channels (which we will discuss in Chapter 3, Understanding Concurrency). Goroutines, lightweight computation threads that are distinct from OS threads, are often described as one of the best features of the language. Goroutines execute their code in parallel and complete when their work is done. The startup time for a goroutine is faster than the startup time for a thread, which allows a lot more concurrent work ...

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