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> Really? Thats not my understanding, its much smarter than that. Goroutines steal memory from the current pthread machine stack, that is, the machine stack.

There is no "machine stack", and yes in the details it tries to set up and memoise C stacks, but it still need to switch out the stack and copy a bunch of crap onto there, and that's expensive.




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