Processes, Threads, and Goroutines
Explore the distinctions between operating system processes, threads, and Go's lightweight goroutines. Understand how goroutines operate within threads and processes to enable efficient concurrent programming in Go.
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What is a process?
A process is an OS representation of a running program, while a program is a binary file on disk that contains all the information necessary for creating an OS process. The binary file is written in a specific format (ELF on Linux) and contains all the instructions the CPU is going to run as well as a plethora of other useful sections. That ...