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stefantalpalaru on Nov 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go-style concurrency in C

It looks like the Linux port of libdispatch uses OS threads through pthreads, so it's not a candidate for the user space light-weight threads needed for efficient CSP.

jws on Nov 18, 2015 [–]

I'm fairly certain that is just to get the worker pool. The blocks on the queue don't each get a thread.

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