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goroutine

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from rupta via
  2. compounded as goroutine — “Go + routine”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for goroutine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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