From: david@...
Date: 2007-08-23T15:49:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9?

Ko1 says (on the coroutines thread, I think) that Fibers are best thought of 
as semi-coroutines, like Python generators.  He's considering changing the 
name to avoid confusion with microthreads. 

    David 

Sam Roberts writes: 

> 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 
>