2013/12/20 <reminisc3@gmail.com>
Are fibers just inherently threads? I read that they have all of the member functions that boost.thread offers. The async functionality looks very useful . At the very least, a promising extension of boost.thread. 

fibers != threads,
'In computer science, a fiber is a particularly lightweight thread of execution.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_(computer_science)