On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 06:49:35 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 18:05:38 UTC, Etienne wrote:
I think this article puts it well. Bypassing the kernel for
fibers should be a long-term plan :)
http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-million-concurrent-connections-the-kernel-i.html
I have seen one real-world project where it was done. Point is
not about specifically fibers though but scheduling as a whole
- when all resources of the system are supposed to be devoted
to a single service, general-purpose OS scheduling creates
problems as it is intended for universal multi-tasking.
I know it would be breaking for other services on the computer
assuming it's a desktop, but dedicated servers or embedded
devices can make great use of such a feature. I'm sure this
implementation could be done without restricting everything to
it, especially with functional programming as we have it in D. I
assume a demonstrated ten-fold increase in performance by-passing
kernel is a radical justification for this.
