goroutine

English

Etymology

Go (“programming language”) +‎ routine, to rhyme with coroutine.

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Noun

goroutine (plural goroutines)

  1. (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.
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