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		laurent123456 on Jan 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go vs. Python for a simple web server He wrote that "In Go, writing concurrent code is more natural and efficiency of goroutines is much better than threads." I would have assumed goroutines were threads too. If not, how are they implemented?

wmf on Jan 3, 2013 [–]

Goroutines are M:N green threads but they're not 1:1 native threads.

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