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Re:Channels, Concurrency, Cores: A New Concurrent ML Impleme... by YorickPeterse on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:33PM (#18223426) 

    > goroutines are a major innovation upon threads.
Not exactly, Erlang has had them for almost three decades.
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Re:Channels, Concurrency, Cores: A New Concurrent ML Impleme... by dragonwriter on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:36PM (#18223452)
Goroutines are not Erlang processes; they are similar in that each is multiplexed M:N style onto native threads, but goroutines aren't shared-nothing, and they communicate with channels rather than each process having a mailbox.
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