Goroutine

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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"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."

Etymology

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

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