Re: Killing arbitrary coroutines

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

andre@leiradella.com <andre@leiradella.com> wrote:

> and then put a check in all other coroutine functions so as soon as the
> coroutine yields again it gets killed (i.e. a deferred stop.) Although
> this works I'd rather avoid having the coroutine run just to be killed
> when it yields as it can take a while if the coroutine is sleeping for a
> long period of time, leaving me with a useless "zoombie" coroutine that
> could be doing useful work.

Resume the coroutine immediately so that it commits suicide. No need to
wait for it to be scheduled.

Tony.
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