Re: [boost] new libaray Boost.Fiber in vault

Subject: Re: [boost] new libaray Boost.Fiber in vault
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-02 16:14:27

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Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] new libaray Boost.Fiber in vault

>
> Am Sonntag, 2. November 2008 19:51:54 schrieb vicente.botet:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I've added Boost.Fiber to the boost vault.
>> > The library implements lightweight threads of execution (context
>> > swapping; fibers on Windows).
>>
>> What about fiber specific storage?
>
> This is specific for the Win32 fiber API - afaik POSIX does not provide 
> fiber
> specific storage.

Do you mean that this has no sens independently of the platform?
IMO if we can implement thread specific storage we can implement fiber 
specific storage. It is only a matter to storing whatever is needed on the 
fiber context. You can find a platform independent implementation of TTS on 
"Thread-Specific Storage -- An Object Behavioral Pattern for Accessing 
per-Thread State Efficiently." 
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/TSS-pattern.pdf or see the code from a 
posix pthread_tss functions implementation.

Vicente