cloudwu/coroutine

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small asymmetric coroutine library for C, similar to Lua's coroutines. Coroutines in a schedule share a single stack, so many coroutines can be created cheaply, with stack copying on context switch.

Use cases

• add cooperative multitasking to a C program
• implement lightweight coroutines in C like Lua's
• run many coroutines with low memory overhead
• write asynchronous-style code in a synchronous style in C
• embed coroutines into a game server or engine

When to choose

• you need simple, dependency-free coroutines in pure C
• memory efficiency matters and shared-stack coroutines fit your workload
• you want a small, readable codebase to embed or study

When to avoid

• you need symmetric coroutines or goroutine-style scheduling
• you need per-coroutine stacks without copy overhead
• you're working in a language with native async/coroutine support

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency developer-tools programming-languages c cross-platform coroutines asymmetric-coroutines stackful c-library context-switching

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