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Coroutine vs Goroutine - What's the difference?

coroutine | goroutine |

As nouns the difference between coroutine and goroutine

is that coroutine is a piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once while goroutine is a lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.

coroutine

English

Alternative forms

* co-routine

Noun

(en noun)
  • (programming) A piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.
    • Although a powerful tool, coroutines can be hard to understand due to the way data can flow back and forth between sections of the code.

    Hyponyms

    * subroutine (A coroutine that accepts input once and returns output once) * generator (A coroutine that accepts input once, but yields output multiple times)

    See also

    * ("coroutine" on Wikipedia)

    goroutine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A lightweight communicating]] process in the [[w:Go (programming language), Go programming language.