First Draft: Coroutines

[Bienlein]

On Thursday, 7 November 2024 at 16:03:45 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> 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.

Okay, I see. Thanks for telling me. What a pitty, would be a real 
bone for D.