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		amelius on July 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Go was Made I have a question about the design of the garbage collector of Go. Does it also clean up goroutines that are waiting on a "forgotten" channel? And does this apply for processes waiting for each other in a cycle?

dsymonds on July 11, 2015 [–]

No, goroutines are never cleaned up until they exit. If they are blocked on a channel that no-one else references then they'll be blocked forever.

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