For C++, that's actually not too bad. Now try creating 100,000 threads with synchronized communication. In Go it's trivial: $ cat goroutines.go package

For C++, that's actually not too bad. Now try creating 100,000 threads with synchronized communication. In Go it's trivial: $ cat goroutines.go package main import ( "flag" "fmt" ) var n *int = flag.Int("n", 100000, "thread count") func thread(x int, result chan int) { result <- x } func main() { flag.Parse() results := make(chan int) for i := 0; i < *n; i++ { go thread(i, results) } for i := 0; i < *n; i++ { fmt.Println(<-results) } } $ time ./goroutines | tail 99990 99991 99992 99993 99994 99995 99996 99997 99998 99999 real 0m0.723s user 0m0.396s sys 0m0.840s http://weekly.golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency http://weekly.golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency