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Revision as of 23:59, 2 January 2024
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Overview
The majority of languages address concurrency by providing a representation of O/S threads or green threads at language level, and exposing memory access synchronization primitives to protect data in presence of concurrent access.
Go takes a different approach. The fundamental concurrent execution primitive is the goroutine, exposed by the language with the language keyword go. Goroutines are managed by the Go runtime, which maps them transparently over threads. While Go provides memory access and thread synchronization primitives at the language level via the sync package, language guidelines do not exactly encourage their use, unless in very specific situations. Go provides an alternative concurrency programming model in language, based on Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), a theoretical model introduced by A. Hoare in the "Communicating Sequential Processes" 1978 ACM paper. This concurrency programming model uses channels, which are exposed at language level with the chan keyword.