Go: A new system programing language

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 11/11/2009 8:03 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Is it possible to do the kind of "goroutine" scheduling they do purely
> as a library?

It’s similar to how the Plan 9 thread library works, see the code at 
<http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/libthread/>.

> That wasn't really clear to me how their "segmented stacks" thing
> works.  Sounds like it would need low-level runtime system support,
> though.

I got pointed to this: <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks>, apparently 
by the person doing the GCC Go implementation.

—Joel Salomon