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- noun computing, programming A
lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.
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Go + routine, to rhyme with coroutine.
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Basically, it creates a chain of 100,000 microthreads (tasklet, goroutine, process ... take your pick), sends a value in one end and waits for the result at the other end.
Planet Python 2010
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