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Explain why short,
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Coroutines appear when there are several parts of the program coordinating among them,
where each part performs a higher level task.
While simple coroutines appear in higher level languages such as Python (in the form of generators),
in languages such as assembly where they is no builtin support for them,
they are more complex and slower than equivalent code that doesn't use coroutines,
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The program in the text starts up the
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What would happen if
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that is,
if line 60 where changed from `
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The first parsed character would be ignored,
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Give coroutine linkage analogous to (1) for the case of
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In principle,
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six
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