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Comment by lixiasky

That is a fascinating comparison! History really does rhyme. What you described—suspending with a flag and resuming with new values—is surprisingly similar to how the C++20 compiler transforms coroutines into a state machine under the hood. In tiny_coro, the promise_type essentially manages that "inversion of control" you mentioned, but hides the manual state management behind the co_await syntax. It's really cool to see that these fundamental patterns for "stopping and resuming" computation have existed for so long, just in different forms.
parent lixiasky 8 months ago

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