The select algorithm is described in Robert Pike's "The Implementation of Newsqueak." You may want to take a look at a paper called "Scalable Join Patterns" whi

The select algorithm is described in Robert Pike's "The Implementation of Newsqueak." You may want to take a look at a paper called "Scalable Join Patterns" which is about implementing Join Patterns in C#. Join patterns involve channels. The take-away of the "Scalable" paper is the use of lock-free algorithms.