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Subroutine vs Coroutine - What's the difference?

subroutine | coroutine | Hyponyms |

Coroutine is a hyponym of subroutine.



As nouns the difference between subroutine and coroutine

is that subroutine is a section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task while coroutine is a piece of code that performs a task, and that can be passed new input and return output more than once.

subroutine

English

Noun

(wikipedia subroutine) (en noun)
  • (computer science) A section of code, called by the main body of a program, that implements a task.

    • 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)