No, threads don't use 8kB stacks, they use 2-8MB stacks. A particular point of goroutines is that they use less address space than threads. Both goroutines and

No, threads don't use 8kB stacks, they use 2-8MB stacks. A particular point of goroutines is that they use less address space than threads. Both goroutines and threads use roughly the same amount of physical memory.