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noselasd on Jan 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014)

How/why are they not executed in parallel ?

themartorana on Jan 8, 2015 [–]

They MAY be executed in parallel. Concurrency != parallelism[0] BY DEFAULT.

That said, if you're running Go against n number of CPUs, then yes, the concurrency may in fact happen in parallel.

[0] http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism

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