On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Russel Winder <rus...@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.
