How many std.concurrency receivers?

[Sean Kelly]

On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Yep. If fibers were used in std.concurrency there would basically be an implicit yield in send and receive.