[Mono-devel-list] Coroutines

[Joe Ante]

Hi Miguel and Rafael,

> I agree with Miguel, that you don't need specific CoRoutines support,
> just use the Thread class.
> 
> Your code could be transformed in
> 
> void Update ()
> {
>      Console.WriteLine ("Starting up");
>      System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(20000); // every other thread will
> continue to execute
>      Console.WriteLine ("20 seconds later");
> }
I am looking for something less heavyweight than threads.

The game code i am running needs to run synchronously. Also the WaitFor
function was an example and there might be several other Yielding function's
eg. WaitForAnimationToFinish

I guess i could do something like create a seperate thread for every update
function which might contain a yield statement. Something like this.


Create Update Function Thread
Suspend MainThread
Run Update Function Thread

void Update ()
{
    WaitFor (20.F)
    {
            Store info about this thread and when to  continue the thread
            Suspend Update function thread
            Run MainThread
    }
}

Some time later from inside the MainThread when 20 seconds have passed or an
animation finished playing call:

Suspend MainThread
Run UpdateThread (This would then finish the update function)
Run MainThread



You are right that it's simplest to implement but i don't think it's gonna
cut it performance wise.

I really want to start working a bit on coroutines. I'd really appreciate if
you can give me some hints, starters, help.

Joachim Ante