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		dbaupp on Nov 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go 1.2 > The scheduler is invoked occasionally upon entry to a function [from http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.2] Does this mean that every function call has to do a check and possibly an (atomic?) increment of some variable?

rsc on Nov 29, 2013 [–]

No. It reuses the check that was already being done for stack growth.

dbaupp on Nov 29, 2013 | [–]

So the answer is "yes but nothing more than what happens in 1.1" to the check, but no to the increment?

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