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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand... by emfree on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:30PM (#18172699)
Goroutine stacks are in fact allocated on the heap. All the details are in here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/stack.g...
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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand... by pcwalton on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:49PM (#18172971)
By heap allocating stack frames I mean that each time you call a function, SML/NJ allocates space for that individual frame on the heap. It then uses the garbage collector to clean up frames after the function call has returned.
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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand... by twic on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:39AM (#18175395)
Smalltalk-80 did this too. Later implementations try to avoid it, but sometimes still do:

http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/things/smalltalk-things/eff...

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