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WC_MINUS
This small program counts the characters in the input files, except for ASCII spaces and tabs. It's something I wanted for a one-off investigation, and I thought it would be a fun way to play with Go's concurrency primitives.
It reads up to 8 4k buffers of the input files at a time, and counts the characters in parallel (at least, if the input data can be read fast enough, it can go in parallel!). My first inclination was to use a mutex or an atomic add for the overall sum, but in the spirit of Go I stuck with channels for communication. Each worker thread tracks its own sum, and when the input channel closes, they send their sum to another channel to be part of a grand total computed in the main() function. For this small program it worked very well.
This program is over-elaborate for what I used it for, but it made for a good exercise.
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