Fibers under the hood

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 11:45:01 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> On 6/9/16 2:15 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>> On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 05:07:33 UTC, Nikolay wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 04:57:30 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I've googled and searched through the forums but haven't 
>>>> found too
>>>> much on how fibers are implemented.  How does yield return 
>>>> execution
>>>> to the caller but then resume execution in the same place on 
>>>> the next
>>>> call?  Also some information on how the fiber call stack 
>>>> works would
>>>> be nice.  I'm assuming it allocates the stack on the GC 
>>>> heap.  If so,
>>>> what is the default size and is that configurable?  Any 
>>>> information
>>>> or pointers to resources that provide this information would 
>>>> be
>>>> helpful.  Thanks.
>>>
>>> See "Documentation of Fiber internals" inside
>>> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/core/thread.d
>>
>> Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.  Would be nice if this
>> documentation was published on the website somewhere (probably 
>> in the
>> Fiber library documentation).
>
> Might be wrong but did you mean this?
>
> https://dlang.org/phobos/core_thread.html#.Fiber

I don't see that documentation anywhere on that page.  That's 
where I looked first actually.  It may or may not make sense to 
include that doc in the api documentation, but I think it would 
definitely make sense to include it on it's own page that talks 
about how fibers are implemented.  This information is more about 
learning about fibers as opposed to how to use them (which is all 
that most people want to know).