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		genbattle on March 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is amazing, period. Goroutines are multiplexed onto a set of threads defined by the Go program. They're not each a full thread; it's more like Stackless Python's version of threads. http://www.stackless.com/

rocha on March 19, 2012 [–]

Good point. Since the OP was talking about execution speed, I thought he was using the word thread to refer to OS threads.

sausagefeet on March 19, 2012 | [–]

Even still, performing number crunching on 4000 Go thread seems like a bad idea.

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