goroutine

noun

goroutine

noun

Etymology From Go (“programming language”) + routine, to rhyme with coroutine.

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.

Exercise 14.8: Starting from the Fibonacci-program in Listing 6.10, make a solution which isolates the calculation of the Fibonacci-terms in a goroutine, which sends these results on a channel. Close the channel when finished.2012, Ivo Balbaert, The Way to Go, page 406:

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