From fde2f767d1e97cc6b7d4d33beaa55e1b9098ec98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark McGranaghan <mmcgrana@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:43:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] buffer channels for better gc semantics

---
 examples/timeouts/timeouts.go | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/timeouts/timeouts.go b/examples/timeouts/timeouts.go
index 79d7bbf..b985eb8 100644
--- a/examples/timeouts/timeouts.go
+++ b/examples/timeouts/timeouts.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ func main() {
     // For our example, suppose we're executing an external
     // call that returns its result on a channel `c1`
     // after 2s.
-    c1 := make(chan string)
+    c1 := make(chan string, 1)
     go func() {
         time.Sleep(time.Second * 2)
         c1 <- "result 1"
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func main() {
 
     // If we allow a longer timeout of 3s, then the receive
     // from `c2` will succeed and we'll print the result.
-    c2 := make(chan string)
+    c2 := make(chan string, 1)
     go func() {
         time.Sleep(time.Second * 2)
         c2 <- "result 2"