Fibers

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that, in D 2.20, we now have an implementation of fibers for D2.  I
>> understand the basic differences between a fiber and a thread (preemptive vs.
>> cooperative multitasking, threads can take advantage of multicore, fibers
>> can't).  However, from a more practical point of view, I've become curious,
>> what are fibers actually good for?  What can be done with fibers that either
>> can't be done at all or can't be done as efficiently/elegantly/safely with
>> threads?
>>
>
> Oh, they're in core.thread!  Huh.  Very interesting.
>
> These are stack threads right?  Check out the presentation from the
> D/Tango conference by Mikola -- it's very well done.
> http://petermodzelewski.blogspot.com/2008/10/tango-conference-2008-fibers-talk-video.html
>
> One thing I think they enable is a less hacky opApply.
>
> --bb
>

And once it gets posted, the talk by Rick Richardson about DReactor is
an example of fibers put to good use.