coro

Nim coroutines implementation, supports several context switching methods:

ucontext available on unix and alike (default)
setjmp available on unix and alike (x86/64 only)
fibers available and required on windows.
-d:nimCoroutines Required to build this module.
-d:nimCoroutinesUcontext Use ucontext backend.
-d:nimCoroutinesSetjmp Use setjmp backend.
-d:nimCoroutinesSetjmpBundled Use bundled setjmp implementation.

Unstable API.

Timer support for the realtime GC. Based on https://github.com/jckarter/clay/blob/master/compiler/hirestimer.cpp

Imports

os, lists

Types

CoroutineRef = ref object
  coro: CoroutinePtr
CoroutineRef holds a pointer to actual coroutine object. Public API always returns CoroutineRef instead of CoroutinePtr in order to allow holding a reference to coroutine object while it can be safely deallocated by coroutine scheduler loop. In this case Coroutine.reference.coro is set to nil. Public API checks for it being nil and gracefully fails if it is nil. Source Edit

Procs

proc suspend(sleepTime: float = 0) {...}{.raises: [], tags: [].}
Stops coroutine execution and resumes no sooner than after sleeptime seconds. Until then other coroutines are executed. Source Edit
proc start(c: proc (); stacksize: int = defaultStackSize): CoroutineRef {...}{.
    discardable, raises: [], tags: [RootEffect].}
Schedule coroutine for execution. It does not run immediately. Source Edit
proc run() {...}{.raises: [], tags: [TimeEffect].}
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proc alive(c: CoroutineRef): bool {...}{.raises: [], tags: [].}
Returns true if coroutine has not returned, false otherwise. Source Edit
proc wait(c: CoroutineRef; interval = 0.01) {...}{.raises: [], tags: [].}
Returns only after coroutine c has returned. interval is time in seconds how often. Source Edit

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https://nim-lang.org/docs/coro.html