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Effective Concurrency in Go

By : Burak Serdar
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Book Image

Effective Concurrency in Go

5 (1)
By: Burak Serdar

Overview of this book

The Go language has been gaining momentum due to its treatment of concurrency as a core language feature, making concurrent programming more accessible than ever. However, concurrency is still an inherently difficult skill to master, since it requires the development of the right mindset to decompose problems into concurrent components correctly. This book will guide you in deepening your understanding of concurrency and show you how to make the most of its advantages. You’ll start by learning what guarantees are offered by the language when running concurrent programs. Through multiple examples, you will see how to use this information to develop concurrent algorithms that run without data races and complete successfully. You’ll also find out all you need to know about multiple common concurrency patterns, such as worker pools, asynchronous pipelines, fan-in/fan-out, scheduling periodic or future tasks, and error and panic handling in goroutines. The central theme of this book is to give you, the developer, an understanding of why concurrent programs behave the way they do, and how they can be used to build correct programs that work the same way in all platforms. By the time you finish the final chapter, you’ll be able to develop, analyze, and troubleshoot concurrent algorithms written in Go.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Synchronization characteristics of Go concurrency primitives

Having defined a happened-before relationship, it is easy to lay the ground rules for the Go memory model.

Package initialization

If package A imports another package, B, then the completion of all init() functions in package B happens before the init() functions in package A begin.

The following program always prints B initializing before A initializing:

package B
import "fmt"
func init() {
   fmt.Println("B initializing")
}
---
package A
import (
   "fmt"
    "B"
)
func init() {
  fmt.Println("A initializing")
}

This extends to the main package as well: all packages directly or indirectly imported by the main package of a program complete their init() functions before main() starts. If an init() function creates a goroutine, there is no guarantee that the goroutine will finish before main() starts...