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obiterdictum on March 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 released with Go pro...

Yes and no. They do use a thread pool of OS threads, but they don't map 1-to-1 to goroutines.

edsrzf on March 27, 2011 [–]

That's true for the gc compilers, but not for gccgo (yet, anyway). Each go statement in gccgo creates a pthread.

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