From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2007-08-23T14:21:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9?

Quoting mental@rydia.net, on Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:45:02AM +0900:
> Anyway, fibers can be a useful thing to have as a foundation for
> lightweight concurrency, even in the presence of native threads (e.g. you
> can have a worker thread per CPU, each one executing fiber-based tasks
> from a work pool), although there are portability trade-offs with respect
> to environments like the JVM.

How are fibers different from ruby 1.8 "threads", which were user-space
implemented.

Sam