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Go Asynchronous Preemption: A deep look

  • Asynchronous preemption is a feature in Go that allows the runtime to pause running goroutines at safe points.
  • It solves the problem of goroutines getting stuck in tight loops and blocking other goroutines from running.
  • When a goroutine has been running for too long, a signal is sent to initiate preemption.
  • The runtime manipulates the stack frame to inject a function call instruction, forcing the goroutine to reach a safe point and enable preemption.

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