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kevinmcconnell on Jan 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making the move from Scala to Go

Are you sure they aren't intended for data processing? I've never heard that claim before, and the Go documentation seems to have a lot of examples of using channels in that way. (https://blog.golang.org/pipelines, for example; or https://tour.golang.org/concurrency/2).

lazyjones on Jan 30, 2017 [–]

Let me rephrase: not suitable for large amounts of data that need high throughput. It's easy to see that the overhead is prohibitive for applications such as in the article, if you just benchmark it.

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