Native Concurrency and Coroutines

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PlanGrid's Kotlin Multiplatform sync library runs Kotlin/Native coroutines across threads by embedding runBlocking inside a native worker pool (five workers in the demo) and exposing two APIs: execute to run frozen coroutine blocks on background workers and performAndWait which suspends, ships work to a worker, and resumes via an atomicRef holding a Result plus a stableRef to the continuation; uses kotlinx.serialization and SQLDelight, relies on freeze/ensureNeverFrozen/atomic primitives, and works around the missing multi-threaded coroutine support (issue 416).

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1. 0:00Introduction to talk
2. 2:59Plan Grid app overview
3. 7:08Sync system challenges
4. 10:38Kotlin Native concurrency rules
5. 19:12Implementing coroutine worker
6. 24:52Coroutine worker pool
7. 28:08Perform and wait explained
8. 35:13Library capabilities and summary
9. 36:57Q&A and resources

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