Internal and external iteration, fibers

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:45:25 +0100
"qznc" <qznc at go.to> wrote:

> On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 17:59:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > Then there's C/C++ which has libs that offer what are known as
> > "stackless fibers". These utilize the preprocessor, along with 
> > switch
> > and goto, to accomplish the same thing that (AIUI) C# does for 
> > its
> > coroutines: It lets the user write a normal coroutine, with a 
> > normal
> > yield, which then gets trivially rewritten behind-the-scenes 
> > into an
> > event loop (with NO actual fibers involved). I'm not sure to 
> > what
> > extent this would be possible in D. If it is, the lack of 
> > preprocessor
> > would probably make it much less nice-looking to use than the 
> > C/C++/C#
> > versions. (Not that I'd want a preprocessor.)
> 
> Is this also known as protothreads?
> 
> http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/

Yea. In fact, that's the exact same lib I've used.