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Re:Proposal: Non-cooperative goroutine preemption by arghwhat on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:54AM (#16707042)
[Citation needed]
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Re:Proposal: Non-cooperative goroutine preemption by jashmatthews on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:35AM (#16707370)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12061

"Mark termination does not have to rescan stacks that haven’t executed since the last scan"

With pre-emptive scheduling of OS threads, you potentially dirty a ton more stacks, and have to scan them all for pointers to heap memory. I'm not sure how VMs using lots of OS threads deal with this.

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