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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

Thread confinement

The challenges of atomicity violation can be solved in many ways. The first one tackles the problem in a simple fashion: since we know that the problem can only happen when a state is shared between different threads, we make sure that this never happens.

What is thread confinement?

Thread confinement, as its name suggests, means confining all the coroutines accessing a shared state so that they execute on a single thread. This means that the state is no longer shared between threads: only one thread will modify the state.

This solution is great if you know that having all the coroutines modifying the state in the same thread will not negatively affect the performance of your application.

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