Re: [boost] new library boost.fiber in vault

Subject: Re: [boost] new library boost.fiber in vault
From: Edd Dawson (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-20 23:39:07

Sounds very similar to something I did a while back:
http://www.mr-edd.co.uk/?page_id=91

It's rather late now, so I'll take a closer look tomorrow, perhaps.

Kind regards,

Edd

Oliver Kowalke wrote:
> I've re factored boost.fiber (-> boost vault 
> http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Concurrent%20Programming). 
> 
> 
> The library provides a so called lightweight thread of execution (also 
> known as user-space thread or fiber on WIN32).
> The API is modeled after boost.thread.
> 
> Beside a scheduler (currently simple round-robin) for the fibers the 
> library provides sync. primitives like mutex, condition- and 
> event-variables (auto-reset, manual-reset, count-down). Message can be 
> passed between fibers via bounded-/unbounded-fifo.
> 
> Some feedback would be nice.
> 
> regards,
> Oliver