Publication Details

To Readers

The book assumes a reader who has familiar with the programming language Go, and it consists of four parts: Programming Basics, Runtime, Compile System, and Standard Library.

Why Study Source Code?

The original purpose of this book was not to write a book regarding the Go source code. Instead, the author of the book was trying to understand the runtime mechanism of Go due to a reconstruction work of rewrite an old C project by Go. Therefore, it is necessary to uncover what actually happened while using cgo and what are the performance limits inside Go runtime. Subsequently, the author realized the performance issue of goroutine scheduler and then start writing the working principles of the scheduler. Luckily, the author of the book has decided to turn this book into a full source code study because of the rising of interests.