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		calcifer on Nov 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ditching Go for Node.js Not only that, but channels are internally implemented with mutexes anyway, so a naive mutexes+callbacks implementation wouldn't be any faster.

iends on Nov 23, 2017 [–]

Channels have a performance overhead over handling the locking yourself. Maybe look at stuff from Tyler Treat to learn more (maybe his most recent talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4d_PZ6Gns) but there are some other discussions (mostly with earlier Go versions) but maybe something changed?

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