But I tried compiling this program: https://github.com/davecheney/junk/tree/master/id
and I cant get it to compile/run, the runtime.h file seems MIA -alex On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:02 PM Alex Mills <a...@channelmeter.com> wrote: > Not a joke, in terms of performance, if you access the goroutine id via > the C library call? > My only concern would be if goroutine id's were reused, if not it would > work. > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 5:54 PM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 5:46 PM Alex Mills <a...@channelmeter.com> wrote: >> > >> > There appears to be a way to get a reference on the goroutine id: >> > >> > http://blog.sgmansfield.com/2015/12/goroutine-ids/ >> >> But as you can see by reading that blog article, that is almost a joke. >> >> Go considers these things to be better handled explicitly, which is >> why people are telling you to use a context.Context value. And, yes, >> you'll want to use a Context aware logging package. >> >> In Go it's trivial to create new goroutines, and as soon as you do >> that any goroutine-local-variable scheme falls apart. So Go has >> consistently chosen to not provide that capability, and similarly to >> not provide goroutine IDs. It's an intentional choice by the >> language. There have been a number of discussions about this in the >> past on this mailing list. >> >> Ian >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAL6oN2fBQs8u_XahVNBDpVZOd0W4oOedjb8aoQ5fdeZQF%2B926A%40mail.gmail.com.
