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		microtonal on April 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Beauty of Concurrency in Go Because there already exists a perfectly fine name for them: green threads (as opposed to operating system threads), using M:N threading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)#M:N_.28Hybri... They are just a subclass of threads.

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