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      1 // run
      2 
      3 // Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
      4 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
      5 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
      6 
      7 // Test concurrency primitives: classical inefficient concurrent prime sieve.
      8 
      9 // Generate primes up to 100 using channels, checking the results.
     10 // This sieve consists of a linear chain of divisibility filters,
     11 // equivalent to trial-dividing each n by all primes p  n.
     12 
     13 package main
     14 
     15 // Send the sequence 2, 3, 4, ... to channel 'ch'.
     16 func Generate(ch chan<- int) {
     17 	for i := 2; ; i++ {
     18 		ch <- i // Send 'i' to channel 'ch'.
     19 	}
     20 }
     21 
     22 // Copy the values from channel 'in' to channel 'out',
     23 // removing those divisible by 'prime'.
     24 func Filter(in <-chan int, out chan<- int, prime int) {
     25 	for i := range in { // Loop over values received from 'in'.
     26 		if i%prime != 0 {
     27 			out <- i // Send 'i' to channel 'out'.
     28 		}
     29 	}
     30 }
     31 
     32 // The prime sieve: Daisy-chain Filter processes together.
     33 func Sieve(primes chan<- int) {
     34 	ch := make(chan int) // Create a new channel.
     35 	go Generate(ch)      // Start Generate() as a subprocess.
     36 	for {
     37 		// Note that ch is different on each iteration.
     38 		prime := <-ch
     39 		primes <- prime
     40 		ch1 := make(chan int)
     41 		go Filter(ch, ch1, prime)
     42 		ch = ch1
     43 	}
     44 }
     45 
     46 func main() {
     47 	primes := make(chan int)
     48 	go Sieve(primes)
     49 	a := []int{2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97}
     50 	for i := 0; i < len(a); i++ {
     51 		if x := <-primes; x != a[i] {
     52 			println(x, " != ", a[i])
     53 			panic("fail")
     54 		}
     55 	}
     56 }
     57