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A comment on Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs. Parent comment

Re:Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs by nine_k on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:52PM (#46124109)
Can you create a thread pool consisting of one thread, and suspend / resume the thread?
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Re:Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs by RossBencina on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:52PM (#46127403)
Doesn't that negate the point of using coroutines? light-weight concurrency
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Re:Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs by nine_k on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @10:05PM (#46129826)
It does, sadly.
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Re:Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs by ethin on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:51AM (#46135888)
I mean I guess I could... But threads are pretty heavyweight. Though there may be a more lightweight way of implementing them in kernel mode (not coroutines or fibers, but actual threads) and I just have never heard of it.
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