Silicon Valley D Meetup - October 26, 2017 - "D Fibers" by Ali Çehreli

[Mark]

On Saturday, 21 October 2017 at 18:20:13 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> D Fibers
>
> Ali will present a shorter version of his DConf 2016 talk:
>
>   http://dconf.org/2016/talks/cehreli.html
>
> D's fibers (coroutines in other languages) are not a part of 
> the language but a feature implemented by the D runtime.
>
> This talk should be fairly accessible to new programmers even 
> without a CS background as it will explain the function call 
> stack as well as context registers, concepts necessary to 
> understand how fibers are useful at all.
> Ali

Nice. I won't be there, but I really liked the talk about 
multitasking you gave at DConf 2016. I never heard of coroutines 
before it, so it pretty much blew my mind how easily you can 
iterate on several trees (simultaneously) with them.