https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/scheduler/ Recent content in Scheduler on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:27:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2020/08/gos-scheduler-gomaxprocs-work-stealing-and-why-it-matters/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:27:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2020/08/gos-scheduler-gomaxprocs-work-stealing-and-why-it-matters/ Go's M:N scheduler is one of the reasons goroutines are cheap enough to use liberally. Understanding how it works changes how you reason about concurrency bugs and performance anomalies. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2019/04/goroutines-are-not-threads-the-mental-model-shift/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:07:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2019/04/goroutines-are-not-threads-the-mental-model-shift/ Coming from Java, I initially modelled goroutines as lightweight threads. That model is mostly right but subtly wrong in ways that matter — understanding the Go scheduler changes how you think about goroutine lifecycle and blocking.