Multi Core CPU Performance in GoLang

I’ve been playing around with Google’s programming language known simply as Go lately, and have learned quite a bit about concurrency, parallelism, and writing code to effectively use multiple CPU cores in the process.

An Overview of Go

Pictured: Not A Serial Killer

If you are used to programming at the systems level, Go is effectively a replacement for C, but also has higher level functionality.

  • It is strongly typed
  • It can be compiled
  • It has its own unit testing framwork
  • It has its own benchmarking framework
  • Doesn’t support classes, but supports structures and attaching functions to variables instantiated from those structures
  • Doesn’t expose threads, but instead uses a construct called “channels” for communication between different parts of a Go program. More on channels shortly.
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Running Dorsai Thing 2013: Lessons Learned

The Liberty Bell

Each year, The Dorsai Irregulars have their own annual convention known as “Dorsai Thing”. It is a weekend long event, held in a different city each year, where we all gather, socialize, and hold our semi-annual business meeting. This year, it was held in Phildelphia, and it fell on my shoulders to run the event, dubbed “Liberty Thing” While I’ve worked at plenty of conventions before, this was the first one where I was effectively the Con Chair. This was an entirely new thing for me, and I wanted to write a blog post about some of the things I learned during the experience.

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