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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Create Golang production applications using network libraries, concurrency, machine learning, and advanced data structures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838559335
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Go and the Operating System 2. Understanding Go Internals FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Basic Go Data Types 4. The Uses of Composite Types 5. How to Enhance Go Code with Data Structures 6. What You Might Not Know About Go Packages and Functions 7. Reflection and Interfaces for All Seasons 8. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 9. Concurrency in Go – Goroutines, Channels, and Pipelines 10. Concurrency in Go – Advanced Topics 11. Code Testing, Optimization, and Profiling 12. The Foundations of Network Programming in Go 13. Network Programming – Building Your Own Servers and Clients 14. Machine Learning in Go 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Goroutines

You can define, create, and execute a new goroutine using the go keyword followed by a function name or the full definition of an anonymous function. The go keyword makes the function call return immediately, while the function starts running in the background as a goroutine and the rest of the program continues its execution.

However, as you will see in a moment, you cannot control or make any assumptions about the order in which your goroutines are going to be executed because this depends on the scheduler of the operating system, the Go scheduler, and the load of the operating system.

Creating a goroutine

In this subsection, you will learn two ways of creating goroutines. The first one is by using regular functions...

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