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		knodi on May 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go 1.5 max procs default How will GOMAXPROCS default change break existing programs?

chc on May 28, 2015 [–]

Per the OP: "Increased parallelism could make bugs in racy programs more likely to cause crashes or other problems. The setting of GOMAXPROCS=1 may have thus far let those bugs go undetected. Raising it may therefore make buggy programs less reliable."

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