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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand... by chmaynard on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:12AM (#18174373)
The article makes a number of authoritative claims without providing much in the way of references to other more scholarly work. One might characterize it as an opinion piece masquerading as serious analysis. Nevertheless, I found it thought-provoking and I'm learning a lot by reading the comments here.
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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand... by hazeii on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:51AM (#18174540)
One error I spotted is that at 4kb each, 1GB only gets you 250,000 goroutines (i.e. article is wrong by an order of magnitude). Easy mistake to make, but bad in a comparison article.

FTA: "With 4KB per stack, you can put 2.5 million goroutines in a gigabyte of RAM – a huge improvement over Java’s 1MB per thread"

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