Do I need to keep a strong reference to a continua...

# coroutines

[ansman]

Do I need to keep a strong reference to a continuation given to me in suspendCancellableCoroutine? I need to work around a memory leak and I was planning on doing that by keeping a weak ref to the continuation

[Dominaezzz]

You can but you must be able to call resume on it at some point.

[ansman]

Well, I can’t guarantee that either which is why I also have a withTimeout around it

[louiscad]

You are likely to get your coroutine garbage collected while suspended if you use a weak reference on it

[ansman]

Hmm, so I need to keep a strong reference?

[bdawg.io]

You should keep a strong reference to things you don’t want garbage collected.

[ansman]

I know that… but I was hoping that the parent job would keep a strong ref so I didn’t have to

[ansman]

Actually I can’t find any reference to a job only keeping a weak ref to child jobs