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tptacek on April 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Beauty of Concurrency in Go

Sure they are. For instance, Gnu Pth.

Programming language support for threading predates direct operating system support (at least in mainstream operating systems) by a lot of years, from what I can tell.

furyofantares on April 29, 2013 [–]

The ones I've used have just been called coroutines, though I suppose I haven't used any that function as drop-in replacements for threads like Pth

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