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0 pointsnewacctjhro6y ago0 comments

Go needs to allocate a growing stack on the heap, needs to move it around, etc. It's not as efficient as Rust's async.

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But is it as efficient or more than the linux threads?

I don't have the full answer (and I would love if someone more knowledgeable could jump in this thread) but I'd say it depends since there are a few antagonistic effects :

- goroutines are (unless it changed since last time I used it) cooperatively scheduled. It's cheaper than preemptive scheduling, but it can lead to big inefficiencies on some workload of you're not careful enough (tight loops can hold a (Linux) thread for a long time and prevent any other goroutines from running on this thread).

- goroutines start with a really small (a few kB) stack which needs to be copied to be grown. If you end up with a stack as big as a native stack, you'd have done a lot of copies in the process, that wouldn't have been necessary if the stack was allocated upfront.

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omeid26y ago

But is it as efficient or more than the linux threads?

littlestymaar6y ago

I don't have the full answer (and I would love if someone more knowledgeable could jump in this thread) but I'd say it depends since there are a few antagonistic effects :

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