Re: [Vala] Question about a basic coroutine example

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:35:41PM +0200, Serge Hulne wrote:
> In the snippet hereunder, I  expected the respective value of the argument
> of the sleep() method, in the methods foo0() and foo1(), to have an
> influence on which one of said coroutines completes first.
>
> Apparently it is not the case, so I am assuming that foo0 and foo1 run, in
> fact, sequentially (and not asynchronously as would, say two children
> processes, for instance).
>
> Is there a way to modify the snippet hereunder so that the coroutine which
> executes faster completes first (or like two children processes) ?

Coroutines work cooperatively, not preemtively. You should use threads.

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