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russell_h
on March 26, 2011
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GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 released with Go pro...
Anyone know if goroutines are still implemented as native POSIX threads in gccgo?
edsrzf
on March 26, 2011
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Yes, they are.
obiterdictum
on March 27, 2011
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Yes and no. They do use a thread pool of OS threads, but they don't map 1-to-1 to goroutines.
edsrzf
on March 27, 2011
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That's true for the gc compilers, but not for gccgo (yet, anyway). Each go statement in gccgo creates a pthread.
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