First Draft: Coroutines

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 08/11/2024 4:31 AM, Bienlein wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 August 2024 at 02:00:39 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> On 06/08/2024 6:11 AM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
>>> It is similar to the approach Go takes in that it makes calling C 
>>> functions more difficult though.
>>
>> Go goes a bit further than that, their goroutines are effectively in 
>> their own calling convention.
>>
>> We cannot replicate what they did, as we have strict requirements on 
>> interactivity to C. I did check with Walter and he confirmed it wasn't 
>> acceptable from his stance either.
> 
> D has fibers with which you can implement a thread model similar to the 
> one in Go based on channels with blocking takes using green threads.

They are both stackful coroutines yes, but they are implemented 
completely differently.

D's fibers cannot scale.