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Budding 10 months ago

The Go scheduler: G, M, and P

How Go runs hundreds of thousands of goroutines on a handful of OS threads - the G-M-P model, local run queues, work-stealing, and the syscall handoff.
Budding 10 months ago

Threads vs coroutines: who decides to yield

Both let a program do many things at once. The real difference is who is in control - the kernel that preempts a thread, or the coroutine that yields itself - and what each "thing" costs.
Budding 12 months ago

CPU-bound vs IO-bound

Whether your program spends its time computing or waiting decides your concurrency model - and quietly picks the language that will feel effortless.