coroutines-guide.md

The main coroutines guide has moved to the docs folder and split up into smaller documents.

Table of contents

• Coroutine basics
  • Your first coroutine
  • Bridging blocking and non-blocking worlds
  • Waiting for a job
  • Structured concurrency
  • Scope builder
  • Extract function refactoring
  • Coroutines ARE light-weight
  • Global coroutines are like daemon threads

• Cancellation and timeouts
  • Cancelling coroutine execution
  • Cancellation is cooperative
  • Making computation code cancellable
  • Closing resources with finally
  • Run non-cancellable block
  • Timeout

• Composing suspending functions
  • Sequential by default
  • Concurrent using async
  • Lazily started async
  • Async-style functions
  • Structured concurrency with async

• Coroutine context and dispatchers
  • Dispatchers and threads
  • Unconfined vs confined dispatcher
  • Debugging coroutines and threads
  • Jumping between threads
  • Job in the context
  • Children of a coroutine
  • Parental responsibilities
  • Naming coroutines for debugging
  • Combining context elements
  • Coroutine scope
  • Thread-local data

• Exception handling
  • Exception propagation
  • CoroutineExceptionHandler
  • Cancellation and exceptions
  • Exceptions aggregation
• Supervision
  • Supervision job
  • Supervision scope
  • Exceptions in supervised coroutines

• Channels (experimental)
  • Channel basics
  • Closing and iteration over channels
  • Building channel producers
  • Pipelines
  • Prime numbers with pipeline
  • Fan-out
  • Fan-in
  • Buffered channels
  • Channels are fair
  • Ticker channels

• Shared mutable state and concurrency
  • The problem
  • Volatiles are of no help
  • Thread-safe data structures
  • Thread confinement fine-grained
  • Thread confinement coarse-grained
  • Mutual exclusion
  • Actors

• Select expression (experimental)
  • Selecting from channels
  • Selecting on close
  • Selecting to send
  • Selecting deferred values
  • Switch over a channel of deferred values