All about Goroutines
Explore the fundamentals of goroutines in Go, including their role in concurrent execution, how they differ from traditional threads, and techniques to implement them effectively. This lesson helps you understand how to run functions simultaneously to optimize performance and reduce waiting time in your programs.
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What is the purpose of goroutines?
Suppose we want to make a GET request and then process the response. There are also other steps in the same block of code that are independent of the HTTP requests and have nothing to do with the response. As we are executing our code sequentially, we’ll encounter the GET request first.
Once we send the request, we wait until we receive a response from the server. We can observe the inefficiency that would result from executing the code, though it has nothing to do with the GET request. We’ve been learning the concepts of threading and ...