Structured Concurrency
Behind the scenes, each CoroutineScope has a CoroutineContext. Think of a coroutine context as the set of rules for how a coroutine should execute, and the coroutine scope as the overseer of a coroutine’s execution according to those rules. A CoroutineContext is further broken down into smaller components that define execution rules. The most commonly used elements that make up a coroutine context are a Job and a CoroutineDispatcher (Figure 20.1).
Figure 20.1 Anatomy of a CoroutineScope
A coroutine’s Job tracks information about the coroutine’s state, like whether it is running. It also ...
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