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Learning Go Programming

You're reading from   Learning Go Programming An insightful guide to learning the Go programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395438
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. A First Step in Go 2. Go Language Essentials FREE CHAPTER 3. Go Control Flow 4. Data Types 5. Functions in Go 6. Go Packages and Programs 7. Composite Types 8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects 9. Concurrency 10. Data IO in Go 11. Writing Networked Services 12. Code Testing

Parallelism in Go

So far, the discussion in this chapter has focused on synchronizing concurrent programs. As was mentioned earlier in the chapter, the Go runtime scheduler automatically multiplexes and schedules goroutines across available OS-managed threads. This means concurrent programs that can be parallelized have the ability to take advantage of the underlying processor cores with little to no configuration. For instance, the following code cleanly segregates its work unit (to calculate sums of multiples of 3 and 5) to be calculated by launching workers number of goroutines:

const MAX = 1000 
const workers = 2 
 
func main() { 
   values := make(chan int) 
   result := make(chan int, workers) 
   var wg sync.WaitGroup 
 
   go func() { // gen multiple of 3 & 5 values 
         for i := 1; i < MAX; i++ { 
               if (i%3) == 0 || (i%5) == 0 { 
                     values <- i // push downstream 
               } 
         } 
         close(values) 
   }() 
 
   work...
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