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		funcDropShadow on Jan 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Niklaus Wirth has died But, isn't the separation of the control-flow into chunks, either separated by async/await or by sepration between call and callback, a form of cooperative thread yielding on top of preemptive threads? If that isn't true for .NET, then I'd really interested to understand what else it is doing.

pjmlp on Jan 4, 2024 [–]

No, it is a state machine that generates an instace of a Task from Task Parallel Library, and automates the Run()/Get() invocations from it.

Assuming your type isn't an Awaitable, with magic methods to influence how the compiler actually generates the state machine.

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