On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Sean Kelly <s...@invisibleduck.org> wrote: > Bill Baxter Wrote: >> >> Is it possible to do the kind of "goroutine" scheduling they do purely >> as a library? > > I think so. It sounds like they basically just have a thread pool that > executes fibers, and D 2.0 already has fibers. > >> That wasn't really clear to me how their "segmented stacks" thing >> works. Sounds like it would need low-level runtime system support, >> though. > > In the description, it sounds like they're just talking about the stacks > resizing on demand. Maybe the "segmented" bit comes from the stack not being > contiguous in memory, but that sounds a bit weird. Either way, the > underpinnings are already in place in D's fibers for auto stack growth > (thanks to Mikola Lysenko), so I don't see this as a compiler-dependent > feature or anything like that. >
So fibers are there today in D2? I didn't realize that bit of Tango's runtime was now rolled in. Cool! Are they documented anywhere? Looks like docs for all of core are not yet being shown on digitalmars.com. --bb
