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Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go
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Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

by Ricardo Gerardi
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
11h 20m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Improving the colStats Tool to Process Files Concurrently

As you noticed from the tracer output, the tool is processing files sequentially. This isn’t efficient since several files have to be processed. By changing the program to process files concurrently, you can benefit from multiprocessor machines and use more CPUs, generally making the program run faster. The program will spend less time waiting for resources and more time processing files.

One of the main benefits of Go is its concurrency model. Go includes concurrency primitives that allow you to add concurrency to your programs in a more intuitive way. By using goroutines and channels. you can modify the current colStats tool to process several files concurrently by making changes to ...

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