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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

By : Castiblanco Torres
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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

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By: Castiblanco Torres

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a modern and statically typed programming language with support for concurrency. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, Learning Concurrency in Kotlin addresses the unique challenges in design and implementation of concurrent code. This practical guide will help you to build distributed and scalable applications using Kotlin. Beginning with an introduction to Kotlin's coroutines, you’ll learn how to write concurrent code and understand the fundamental concepts needed to write multithreaded software in Kotlin. You'll explore how to communicate between and synchronize your threads and coroutines to write collaborative asynchronous applications. You'll also learn how to handle errors and exceptions, as well as how to work with a multicore processor to run several programs in parallel. In addition to this, you’ll delve into how coroutines work with each other. Finally, you’ll be able to build an Android application such as an RSS reader by putting your knowledge into practice. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned techniques and skills to write optimized code and multithread applications.
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Thread confinement

The challenges of atomicity violation can be solved in many ways. The first one tackles the problem in a simple fashion: since we know that the problem can only happen when a state is shared between different threads, we make sure that this never happens.

What is thread confinement?

Thread confinement, as its name suggests, means confining all the coroutines accessing a shared state so that they execute on a single thread. This means that the state is no longer shared between threads: only one thread will modify the state.

This solution is great if you know that having all the coroutines modifying the state in the same thread will not negatively affect the performance of your application.

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