Coroutines in C#

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eyal picture eyal · Apr 8, 2010 · Viewed 59.1k times · Source

I am looking at ways to implement co-routines (user scheduled threads) in c#. When using c++ I was using fibers. I see on the internet fibers do not exist in C#. I would like to get similar functionality.

Is there any "right" way to implement coroutines in c#?

I have thought of implementing this using threads that acquire a single execution mutex + 1 on scheduler thread which releases this mutex for each coroutine. But this seems very costly (it forces a context switch between each coroutine)

I have also seen the yield iterator functionality, but as I understand you can't yield within an internal function (only in the original ienumerator function). So this does me little good.

Answer

Preet Sangha picture Preet Sangha · Apr 8, 2010

Edit: You can now use these: Is there a fiber api in .net?

I believe that you should look at the the Reactive Extensions for .NET. For example coroutines can be simulated using iterators and the yield statement.

However you may want to read this SO question too.

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