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Re:A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 by Blackthorn on Sunday February 09, 2020 @06:25PM (#22285057)
You know how the first time you learned about tcp sockets you made a server that spawned a new thread to handle an incoming connection (or maybe not, people learn differently nowadays).

With the fibers implementation you can just do that. It doesn't kill your performance, and you don't need to go to a painful async model just for performance reasons.

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Re:A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 by m0zg on Sunday February 09, 2020 @06:30PM (#22285086)
Pretty much. You get to pretend inside your fibers that you're actually running threads. IIRC (it's been a while) you also get proper stack trace when something barfs, the importance of which cannot be overstated.
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Re:A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 by ninkendo on Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:53PM (#22285765)
What are they though? Is this a library for an existing language? A runtime scheduler like the one that does goroutines in Go? If it were open sourced, how would I use it?
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Re:A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 by thedance on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:36PM (#22285952)
It’s just a library that allows easier development of C++ servers in the synchronous, thread-per-requests style, similar to working in Go but a bajillion times better because it’s not in Go.
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Re:A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 by Blackthorn on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:03PM (#22286100)
All of the above, and more -- kernel enhancements. See the linked paper, they detail what they do for the kernel side at least.
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Re:A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11 by dkersten on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:31AM (#22287337)
> or maybe not, people learn differently nowadays

If by “nowadays” you mean ~2000 when I first learned socket programming (using select!)? ;-)

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