Yes, goroutines are that lightweight. Rob Pike's introductory tech talk has a demo where he runs a program w/ 100,000 communicating goroutines in 1.5 seconds o

Yes, goroutines are that lightweight. Rob Pike's introductory tech talk has a demo where he runs a program w/ 100,000 communicating goroutines in 1.5 seconds on a Mac laptop. See the slides at http://golang.org/doc/go_talk-20091030.pdf http://golang.org/doc/go_talk-20091030.pdf, page 34.