Programming with POSIX threads David R. Butenhof
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

The past three days were extremely useful for all of us. One of the key features of Goroutines is their cost; they are cheap to create in terms of initial memory footprint (as opposed to the 1 to 8 megabytes with a traditional POSIX thread) and their stack grows and shrinks as necessary. I know plenty of programmers who use threads and use volatile in C and C++ and life goes on just fine. So, why are Go programs different ? Today was the final day of a 3-day workshop on POSIX threads (pthreads) and Network programming, organized at the Ettimadai (Coimbatore) campus of Amrita. Concerning functions provided by the interfaces is reduced in comparison to POSIX threads and offers less functionality. Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Page Count: 398. Most programmers have run into problems with infinite recursion before, and while it is fatal to their program, it isn't usually fatal to their machine. You should read it at least until “Starting a process” part, and if you're not afraid of C and want to know more about low-level workings of threads, POSIX system calls etc – keep reading until the end. Language: English Released: 1997. GO Programming with POSIX threads.