On Concurrency

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 17:10 +0000, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> Fibers are more lightweight, they're not kernel objects. Threads 
> are scheduled by kernel (usually). Fibers are better if you can 
> get better resource usage with manual scheduling - less context 
> switches, or don't want to consume resources need by threads.

Or to put it another way, fibres (!) are what threads were before the
hardware and kernel folks changed the game.
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