[wahern]

> The author keeps calling it "pipelining", but I think the right term is "method chaining". [...] You get a similar effect with coroutines.

The inventor of the shell pipeline, Douglas McIlroy, always understood the equivalency between pipelines and coroutines; it was deliberate. See https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/sieve/sieve.pdf It goes even deeper than it appears, too. The way pipes were originally implemented in the Unix kernel was when the pipe buffer was filled[1] by the writer the kernel continued execution directly in the blocked reader process without bouncing through the scheduler. Effectively, arguably literally, coroutines; one process call the write function and execution continues with a read call returning the data.

Interestingly, Solaris Doors operate the same way by design--no bouncing through the scheduler--unlike pipes today where long ago I think most Unix kernels moved away from direct execution switching to better support multiple readers, etc.

[1] Or even on the first write? I'd have to double-check the source again.