How many std.concurrency receivers?

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Fri Oct 12 02:29:41 PDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 20:30 -0700, Charles Hixson wrote:
[…]
> I'm not clear on what Fibers are.  From Ruby they seem to mean 
> co-routines, and that doesn't have much advantage.  But it also seems as 
[…]

I think the emerging consensus is that threads allow for pre-emptive
scheduling whereas fibres do not. So yes as in Ruby, fibres are
collaborative co-routines. Stackless Python is similar.
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