Channels are always going to be more expensive than using a lock if all your doing is timing the cost of the lock vs a channel; aka hello world of channels. Channels are there to send values between goroutines representing work to do, in which case that work has to be significantly more than the cost of the transmission otherwise it's easier to just do the work yourself.
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