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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627160
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello, Concurrent World! 2. Coroutines in Action FREE CHAPTER 3. Life Cycle and Error Handling 4. Suspending Functions and the Coroutine Context 5. Iterators, Sequences, and Producers 6. Channels - Share Memory by Communicating 7. Thread Confinement, Actors, and Mutexes 8. Testing and Debugging Concurrent Code 9. The Internals of Concurrency in Kotlin 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

More about contexts

As we have seen, the context can define many different details of how a coroutine will behave. Contexts can also be operated on to define mixed behaviors. Let's talk about how contexts can be used in more creative ways.

Mixing contexts

As we have seen in this chapter, there are different types of elements that can be part of a context. We can mix these elements to create a context that meets our needs.

Combining contexts

For example, let's say that you want to have a coroutine running in a specific thread, and at the same time you want to...

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