Hi Juan,
On 06/13/2018 10:27 AM, Juan Ignacio Carrano wrote:
>>> Coroutines make it possible to program asynchronous code in a
>>> blocking style - see "await". This is more natural and easier that
>>> using callbacks.
>> How does it compare to sending / receiving messages?
>>
>
> Using messages
Hi Kaspar,
On 06/12/2018 11:05 PM, Kaspar Schleiser wrote:
RIOT's scheduler used to work like that: any preemption by a higher
priority thread would advance the current priority's circular runqueue.
That has been fixed years ago.
Nowadays, only if a thread calls explicit thread_yield() or it bl
Hi Juan,
On 06/12/2018 12:27 PM, Juan Ignacio Carrano wrote:
> The current RIOT scheduler will only switch between threads with the
> same priority if there is an explicit yield, or if there occurs a
> preemption by a higher priority thread.
RIOT's scheduler used to work like that: any preemption
Hello Rioters,
I'm trying to figure out how could cooperative multithreading / fibers /
coroutines be used in RIOT. There is something already in the scheduler,
but right now it looks more like an artifact of the implementation than
a proper feature.
Why
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