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		randomdata on Dec 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ~2M msgs/second messaging system written in Go I agree with your analysis, but EventMachine does use a defer method to push long-running work off of the event loop.

4ad on Dec 6, 2012 [–]

Defer in Go means something very specific and completely different:

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Defer_statements

http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#defer

randomdata on Dec 6, 2012 | [–]

But EventMachine#defer would make sense in this context, given that the Ruby version is written with EventMachine. That is why I noted it.

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