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0 pointsDagAgren5y ago0 comments

It is not. Coroutines are a much more fundamental feature. They can be used to implement cooperative multitasking, and since that is such a common use case, they have gotten confused with the concept of cooperative multitasking.

Actual coroutines are a lot more flexible and interesting than just cooperative multitasking, though.

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_0ffh5y ago

Erm, I'm pretty sure I can implement coroutines using cooperative multitasking. Also, the other way around. So I'd say they're equivalent in that sense.

DagAgrenOP5y ago

Cooperative multitasking usually involves a scheduler. Coroutines are called explicitly, which you can't do through a scheduler.

_0ffh5y ago

Now you're really just making claims about implementation details. That doesn't make one concept more "fundamental" or "flexible" than the other, while "interesting" is just a subjective judgement.

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TeMPOraL5y ago

With coroutines, your program logic itself is the scheduler.

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0 pointsDagAgren5y ago0 comments

Actual coroutines are a lot more flexible and interesting than just cooperative multitasking, though.

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_0ffh5y ago

Erm, I'm pretty sure I can implement coroutines using cooperative multitasking. Also, the other way around. So I'd say they're equivalent in that sense.

DagAgrenOP5y ago

Cooperative multitasking usually involves a scheduler. Coroutines are called explicitly, which you can't do through a scheduler.

_0ffh5y ago

Now you're really just making claims about implementation details. That doesn't make one concept more "fundamental" or "flexible" than the other, while "interesting" is just a subjective judgement.

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TeMPOraL5y ago

With coroutines, your program logic itself is the scheduler.

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