Today, iPhone X features a 6-core A11 Bionic chip with 4 billion transistors clocking at 2.4MHz and a 3GB RAM. For comparison, the Apollo Guidance Computer, the computer that was installed on Apollo 11 that helped land Neil Armstrong on the moon over 4 decades ago, had a single core CPU with 16,800 transistors clocked at 2MHz and a 4KB RAM. There were many great talks and panels, and the one that stood out for me was “Introduction to Coroutines” by Roman Elizarov which aligned perfectly with the topic I wanted to talk about and I was enthused to get back to writing this.ĬPUs of early computers were capable of executing a single operation per tick of their internal clocks. Then, I had the opportunity to attend KotlinConf which we proudly sponsored and I came out of it with a burst of inspiration. I’ve been wanting to follow up on my previous blog post, “Approaching Kotlin from Three Angles”, with the multithreading chapter and things have been just getting busier every day and I haven’t had much time for it.

Queue kotlin