On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Andrew Lauritzen wrote: > On Friday, 20 April 2012 at 17:49:52 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote: >> There wouldn't me much of a performance hit, mostly an additional allocation >> and a bitcopy when creating a Fiber. It's more that making this work on >> platforms with built-in TLS could be quite tricky. > Note that this would somewhat sabotage their usefulness as coroutines, > depending on how it was implemented. That's not to say the idea isn't good > (but I'd frame it more like "tasks"; see Thread Building Blocks or similar), > but fibers/coroutines as they stand now are useful so I'd hate to see that > capability lost.
Ah, coroutines would actually want to share TLS with the executing thread? That's good to know.
