Processes and Channels, cf. goroutines.

[Bienlein]

Here is a document about the scheduler design in Go:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTj4T2JO42uD5ID9e89oa0sLKhJYD0Y_kqxDv3I3XMw/edit

The C sources for the Go scheduler are here:
http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c?r=01acf1dbe91f673f6308248b8f45ec0564b1d751

Maybe it could be useful Just in case... ;-).