Switching goroutines is much lighter than switching OS threads. When this "toy" and "hack" becomes as heavy or slow and thus no more useful than OS threads, the

Switching goroutines is much lighter than switching OS threads. When this "toy" and "hack" becomes as heavy or slow and thus no more useful than OS threads, then you can make a point. As I see it, you aren't making a point right now, just explaining what OS threads do and calling goroutines names. So let me point in the direction of an explanation of what goroutines do: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs6998/reports/12-12-11_DeshpandeSponslerWeiss_GO.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs6998/reports/12-12-11_Desh...