If you are still confused, here is a very simple way of understanding a co-routine. First off, what is a routine? In a lay man's term, a routine is something that we do again and again (for example, your morning routine). Similarly. in programming languages, a routine is a piece of code that we use again and again, e.g., a function. Now, if you look at the general characteristic of a function or routine (note: I am cautiously using these two terms interchangeably), it takes some inputs and hogs the CPU threads for as long as the function needs to output the result. Meaning, functions or routines are blocking calls in you code. However, a co-routine is a special kind of routine that can co-exist (the "co" part of the word co-routine comes from this) with other routines at the same time and we can make this happen in programming languages with the help of asynchronous programming. In Asynchronous programming, when one co-routine is waiting for something to happen (e.g., disk io), the other co-routine will start working and when this co-routine is in a waiting state the other co-routine will be active ultimately reducing the waiting time of our code.

如果你理解了上面的内容，让我们看看如何在Python中创建协程函数。可以像下面那样定义协程函数-

async def my_coroutine_function():
    return 123

你可以通过在协同程序-前面添加await来调用上面的协同程序

my_result = await my_coroutine_function()

最后,

当你正在看电视节目，广告一出现，你就拿起手机给朋友发短信——你刚刚做的就是异步编程。当你的电视节目(一个合作程序)处于等待状态时，你继续前进，让你的另一个合作程序(给你的朋友发短信)处于激活状态。

Kotlin 协程

[同步与异步]

[并发vs并行]

通常我们认为协程是轻量级线程，它们允许我们以同步的方式编写异步的、非阻塞的代码

至于Kotlin协程:

协程是一个合成糖/附加层，它允许你以非阻塞的方式运行任务，没有回调。协程由以下组件组成:

延续 作业-管理程序和保存它的状态 CoroutineScope(包含作业和Xontext)——处理作业组(层次结构)并管理它们(启动和取消) Dispatcher -用于处理线程池- Main, IO, Default… 上下文-像Map这样的数据结构，以保存一些日期，如Job, Dispatcher和自定义数据

让我们回顾一些例子

class MyClass {
    val network = Network()
    val fileSystem = FileSystem()
    
    suspend fun downloadFile(): File {
        //suspendCoroutine is key point
        return suspendCoroutine { continuation -> 
            network.download(callback: Network.Callback {
                override fun onSuccess(file: File) {
                    continuation.resume(file)
                }
            })
        }
    }

    suspend fun saveFile(file: File) {
        //suspendCoroutine is key point
        return suspendCoroutine { continuation -> 
            fileSystem.save(callback: FileSystem.Callback {
                override fun onSuccess() {
                    continuation.resume()
                }
            })
        }
    }

    GlobalScope.launch {
        val downloadResult = downloadFile() //1. suspend function
        show(downloadResult)                //2. UI 
        saveFile(downloadResult)            //3. suspend function
    }

延续

它创建了Continuation类，它是一个状态机，内部有invokeSuspend()函数。在任何挂起函数的末尾调用invokeSuspend()(像回调一样)

class Continuation {
    int label;

    //block of local variabels
    File file;
 
    void invokeSuspend(Object result) {
        switch (label) {
            case 0: {
                label = 1;
                downloadFile(this);    //1. suspend function
                return;
            }
            case 1: {
                file = (File) result;  //work with result
                show(file);            //2. UI
                saveFile(file, this);  //3.suspend function
                return;
            }
        }
    }
}

class MyClass {
    fun downloadFile(continuation: Continuation): File {
        //logic
        continuation.invokeSuspend(file)
    }

    fun saveFile(file: File, continuation: Continuation) {
        //logic
        continuation.invokeSuspend()
    }
}

暂停

suspended只是一个函数的标记，它将被添加新的延续参数(continue: continue) 分割状态机，这意味着它可以暂停机器 暂停函数应该在Continuation.resume() -> Continuation. invokesuspend()中调用Continuation.resume() 挂起的函数只能从couroutine调用

协程的行为完全依赖于库的实现

协程作为并发性的实现和多线程的替代方案。

协程是实现并发的单线程解决方案。

         A-Start ------------------------------------------ A-End   
           | B-Start -----------------------------------------|--- B-End   
           |    |      C-Start ------------------- C-End      |      |   
           |    |       |                           |         |      |
           V    V       V                           V         V      V      
1 thread->|<-A-|<--B---|<-C-|-A-|-C-|--A--|-B-|--C-->|---A---->|--B-->| 

与多线程解决方案相比:

thread A->|<--A|          |--A-->|
thread B------>|<--B|            |--B-->|
thread C ---------->|<---C|             |C--->|

协程是异步编程的一种实现，异步编程用于实现并发。 许多语言使用协程实现异步编程。其他答案表明Python, Kotlin, Lua, c++已经做到了。 最有用/通常用于涉及I/O绑定问题的场景，例如在获取数据时呈现UI，或从多个数据源下载。

另一方面， 在python中，gevent库是一个基于协程的网络库，它为您提供线程类功能，如异步网络请求，而无需创建和销毁线程的开销。所使用的协程库是绿色的。

协程是Kotlin语言中可用的很棒的特性 协程是一种新的异步、非阻塞的编写方式 代码(以及更多) 协程是轻量级线程。一根轻的线就意味着它 不映射到本机线程，因此不需要上下文切换 在处理器上，所以它们更快。 它不映射到本机线程上 协程和线程都是多任务处理。但是区别在于 线程由操作系统管理，协程由用户管理。

基本上，有两种类型的协程:

Stackless Stackful

Kotlin实现了无堆栈协程-这意味着 协程没有自己的堆栈，所以它们不会映射到本机线程上。

这些是启动协程的函数:

launch{}

async{}

你可以在这里了解更多:

https://www.kotlindevelopment.com/deep-dive-coroutines/

https://blog.mindorks.com/what-are-coroutines-in-kotlin-bf4fecd476e9

If you are still confused, here is a very simple way of understanding a co-routine. First off, what is a routine? In a lay man's term, a routine is something that we do again and again (for example, your morning routine). Similarly. in programming languages, a routine is a piece of code that we use again and again, e.g., a function. Now, if you look at the general characteristic of a function or routine (note: I am cautiously using these two terms interchangeably), it takes some inputs and hogs the CPU threads for as long as the function needs to output the result. Meaning, functions or routines are blocking calls in you code. However, a co-routine is a special kind of routine that can co-exist (the "co" part of the word co-routine comes from this) with other routines at the same time and we can make this happen in programming languages with the help of asynchronous programming. In Asynchronous programming, when one co-routine is waiting for something to happen (e.g., disk io), the other co-routine will start working and when this co-routine is in a waiting state the other co-routine will be active ultimately reducing the waiting time of our code.

如果你理解了上面的内容，让我们看看如何在Python中创建协程函数。可以像下面那样定义协程函数-

async def my_coroutine_function():
    return 123

你可以通过在协同程序-前面添加await来调用上面的协同程序

my_result = await my_coroutine_function()

最后,

当你正在看电视节目，广告一出现，你就拿起手机给朋友发短信——你刚刚做的就是异步编程。当你的电视节目(一个合作程序)处于等待状态时，你继续前进，让你的另一个合作程序(给你的朋友发短信)处于激活状态。