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Dev · antonz.org · Monday, 13 July 2026

C Gets Go‑style Goroutine Concurrency Using POSIX Threads

A blog walk‑through shows how to mimic Go’s lightweight goroutine model in pure C by wrapping pthread mutexes, condition variables, and a thread pool into Go‑like channels and select primitives. The author quantifies the performance trade‑offs, proving that while not as cheap as true goroutines, the approach scales for systems code.

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