tags: #threads #go #processes #register #til #public

• Go’s implementation of threads

• Useful for

  • I/O concurrency
    • Waiting for one activity, another can proceed
  • Paralellisam
    • Multi core.
    • One program use cycyles on multiple cores
  • Convinience

• Threads vs Process

  • Operating system takes care of process
    • Each program has diffrent memory
  • Inside that you run threads
    • Threads can share memory, syncronize

• Challenges of threads

  • 2 or more threads can access the same variable at the same time and do some operations.

    • ex, n = n + 1
      • Even though this is only a single line, the machine code can be multiple lines
      • LD x, register
      • ADD 1, register
      • ST register, x

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