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Re:Libaco: A fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine lib... by ur-whale on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:09AM (#17529830)
Not sure how the second sentence follows from the first here ...

As for context switching speed, you may well be right, but I was under the impression that thread context switching in Linux is really cheap these days, almost as fast as userland coroutines.

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Re:Libaco: A fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine lib... by blattimwind on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:18AM (#17530017)
Coroutine switching can be as fast as a dozen or so ns. Meanwhile a thread context switch will still take a microsecond at least.
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