Channels in Kotlin Coroutines | Nikita Koval

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Have you ever wondered how channels in Kotlin coroutines work under the hood? Recently, we redesigned their implementation, significantly improving performance and memory footprint. This talk will introduce the high-level design of the underlying algorithms. You will learn the semantics of rendezvous and buffered channels, how they are implemented, and what influenced this implementation.
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[@_deathcry]

Off-topic, but it took me a while to realize that this random guy on the slide at 0:40 is actually the presenter himself xD

[@rogeralien]

Looks like he is angry that not many people are using Channels :(

[@zhangwei2671]

😂

[@imSagarMalhotra]

I understood every bit of it! Nice explanation.

[@Reza1984_]

It was difficult understanding him, but this was useful nonetheless!

[@ChrisAthanas]

This would require much less explanation if simple animations are used instead of plain slides

[@HoussamElbadissi]

Honestly it was still very easy to grok, the illustrations he used are quite nice :)

[@szymonsztuka]

love it!