Fibers and async io stuff for beginners

[Jens Bauer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 23 April 2015 at 14:22:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 06:56 AM, ref2401 wrote:
>   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/fibers.html
>
> I appreciate any feedback before the book is finally printed 
> sometime before DConf.

This is great information. I didn't know anything about Fibers 
before today.
Since I started looking at D, I've seen many new and innovative 
ways of programming.
Fibers are definitely also beneficial for microcontrollers.
I can think of a few things that would make good use of Fibers:
1: Real-time Video decompression.
2: File decompression in general.
3: Audio mixing and playback (eg. a MOD player for instance).
4: Collecting data from external devices and sensors.
5: Queueing up a bunch of different jobs; for instance copying 
files (everyone probably knows by now not to start copying files 
if already copying files).

... Thinking a bit further, I've sometimes wanted to make 
multiple cores work on fetching jobs from the same queue. Would 
Fibers be good for spreading out jobs this way?
Actually, it would be neat to have a class, which could manage 
job-dependencies, so that all CPUs could be made busy without 
having to make things look complicated. Someone probably made 
this already, though. ;)