How do goroutines work? (or: goroutines and OS threads relation)

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If a goroutine is blocking, the runtime will start a new OS thread to handle the other goroutines until the blocking one stops blocking.

Reference : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/2IdA34yR8gQ

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