Coroutines are a very simple cooperative multitasking environment where the switch from one task to another is done explicitly by a function call. coroutines are a lot faster than processes or threads switch, since there is no os kernel involvement for the operation. also coroutines require much less os resources than processes of threads.

for a more complete definition of the term coroutine see the art of computer programming by donald e. knuth.

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