AST macros

[Daniel Keep]

David B. Held wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> Cooperative multithreading does not a coroutine make.  Fibers, IIRC, are
>> just stack-based threads.  Coroutines are *entirely different*, although
>> in this particular case they are implemented *using* stack threads.
>> [...]
> 
> Wikipedia seems to think they are essentially the same thing:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_%28computer_science%29
> 
> Fibers are less than stack-based threads because they are cooperative.
> Whereas in a coroutine you write "return", in a fiber you write "yield".
>  Otherwise, I believe they are closely isomorphic.
> 
> Dave

Hmm... looks that way.  I think mine are probably closer to generators
or channels than strictly coroutines, the difference being that Fibers
just do a transfer of control to the given fiber, whereas mine work more
like a function call.

Actually, thinking about it, I'm not entirely sure if mine classify as
coroutines or not... oh bother :P

	-- Daniel

-- 
int getRandomNumber()
{
    return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
              // guaranteed to be random.
}

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