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Groxx on Jan 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust vs. Go

A goroutine is a "task" though. And typically you spin up a goroutine for your select, and hang your current goroutine on its completion.

Seems pretty similar to me.

azernik on Jan 19, 2017 [–]

For networking, it's using epoll() under the scenes; depends on what exact non-blocking operation you're using, though.

See this very very old HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3565703

(Hopefully the standard library has improved since then.)

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