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title: Goroutines
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## Goroutines

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Goroutines are functions or methods that run concurrently with other functions or methods. Goroutines can be thought of as light weight threads. The cost of creating a Goroutine is tiny when compared to a thread.

Prefix the function or method call with the keyword `go` and you will have a new Goroutine running concurrently.

#### More Information:
* [A Tour of Go](https://tour.golang.org/concurrency/1)
* [Go By Example](https://gobyexample.com/goroutines)
* [Golang Book](https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro/10)
* [The Go Programming Language Specification](https://golang.org/ref/spec#Go_statements)