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goroutine

goroutine noun: a lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.

Noun

goroutine (plural goroutines)

  1. A lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.
    • Exercise 14.8: Starting from the Fibonacci-program in Listing 6.10, make a solution which isolates the calculation of the Fibonacci-terms in a goroutine, which sends these results on a channel. Close the channel when finished.2012, Ivo Balbaert, The Way to Go, page 406

Forms of goroutine

pluralgoroutines

Origin of goroutine

From Go (“programming language”) + routine, to rhyme with coroutine.

Questions about goroutine

What does goroutine mean?
Goroutine means a lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.
What part of speech is goroutine?
Goroutine is a noun.
What is the plural of goroutine?
The plural of goroutine is goroutines.

Words near goroutine in the dictionary

  1. goropisms
  2. Gorospe
  3. Gorospes
  4. Gorostieta
  5. Gorostietas
  6. goroutine
  7. goroutines
  8. gorp
  9. gorpcore
  10. Gorr
  11. gorra

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