Go-Flavored Concurrency in C
This article explores the implementation of Go-like concurrency primitives in C using POSIX threads. It details the technical challenges and design choices made while building a subset of Go that translates to C without a runtime or garbage collector.
Why it matters
Understanding the overhead and implementation of concurrency in low-level languages is critical for systems programming and performance optimization.
Go's concurrency is one of the main reasons people like the language. You write go f() , send values through channels, and the runtime scheduler runs thousands of goroutines on just a few OS threads. It feels effortless.
Technical discussion of programming language implementation with no political or social agenda.
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