Hi. Is it possible in Kotlin coroutines to launch ...
# coroutinese
eddy_wm
01/14/2018, 10:15 AMHi. Is it possible in Kotlin coroutines to launch a thousand of coroutines in a way that when the first completes its execution all of other coroutines should also stop.
It's quite a common pattern for parallel CPU mining algorithms.
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voddan
01/14/2018, 10:30 AMYou could make your coroutines write something into a all-to-all channel when they complete the task. That would work as a signal co cancel all calculations
voddan
01/14/2018, 10:31 AMOr just cancel all coroutines when one of them returns. That can be done with a channel as well.
voddan
01/14/2018, 10:32 AMBasically any ad-hock way will work
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eddy_wm
01/14/2018, 10:39 AMCan you give me a code example of what you propose where coroutines are launched and after some time one passes a message to the channel to tell others to stop.
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voddan
01/14/2018, 11:18 AM@eddy_wm Sure. Would you mind creating a StackOverflow question out of it, so that it is searchable?
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eddy_wm
01/14/2018, 1:09 PM@voddan You can still post the code here. It will be just fine.
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