Yann Guidon / YGDESA discussion with an old-timer reminds me this coding technique for cooperative threads.
Coroutines are not used anymore because C and other languages don't allow this structure, so few people bother today... Yet they are still very interesting.
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I thought coroutines were used a lot these days? I'm sure you've heard of goroutines, but also many up and coming languages have explicit support for them as an alternative to threads.
There are several C libraries implementing coroutines as well. They generally (ab)use the gcc label pointer extensions and/or setjmp.
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"C and other languages don't allow this structure" ... well, there's always Simon Tatham's hack for implementing coroutines in C -- it's cheating a bit, because it doesn't *really* work the way you'd expect coroutines to work, but it emulates them quite nicely: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
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Thanks ! I'll have to see that !
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