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pcwalton on April 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Update on Go 1.1 crypto performance

Huh? If you run with GOMAXPROCS=(some number greater than 1) goroutines will be multiplexed onto multiple OS threads.

jesstaa on April 28, 2013 [–]

Yep, and threads are what are helping with the parallelism. Goroutines don't make parallelism any faster or easier than threads do. But they make concurrency much simpler.

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