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		smw 13 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go Concurrency Distilled I feel like you can't describe something as m:n when it the m uses async/await and doesn't actually have a green thread?
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seabrookmx 12 hours ago | [–]

Define the "green thread"? By every definition I've seen[1], the task objects I mention are green threads.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_thread

tym0 4 hours ago | [–]

Is it really that different in implementation? Go's yield points are implicit but aside from the devex side how is that different from async await?

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