goroutine
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Go (“programming language”) + routine, to rhyme with coroutine.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]goroutine (plural goroutines)
- (programming) A lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.
- 2012, Ivo Balbaert, The Way to Go, page 406:
- 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.