The Tale of How We Implemented the Channel Algorithm in Kotlin Coroutines
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An exploration of Kotlin coroutines' channel implementation: it compares channel algorithms used in other languages and libraries, explains the Kotlin team's design choices for scalable, high-performance channels, and discusses implementation challenges, lock-free techniques, and results they achieved.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:30Kotlin channels
- 12:03Channel implementation issues
- 20:37Performance testing
- 24:58Optimization with new algorithm
- 38:18128-bit counters
- 41:57Buffered channels
- 52:24Select explained
- 54:31Q&A
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