Re: [boost] Cooperative Multi-Tasking

Subject: Re: [boost] Cooperative Multi-Tasking
From: Daniel Larimer (dlarimer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-04 07:58:31

On Mar 3, 2010, at 4:13 PM, vicente.botet wrote:

> Hi,
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> From: "Daniel Larimer" <dlarimer_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:37 PM
> Subject: [boost] Cooperative Multi-Tasking
> 
> 
>> 
>> I am curious whether anyone here has experience with any cross-platform cooperative multi-tasking libraries?  I am familiar with the Boost.Coroutine library, but it only provides the "primitives" or "threads".   What I am looking for is something much higher level that hides all of the coroutine details behind a asynchronous function call / future API.  Something along the line of ASIO for coroutines.  
>> 
>> I am guessing that Boost.Asio would benefit from such a library.  It seems obvious to me now that coroutines / cooperative multi-tasking is the superior approach to solving problems with a large number of actors and "locks" where heavy weight preemptive scheduling would bog down the system. 
>> 
>> Considering that cooperative multitasking is a very old concept, are there any reasons why there are no obvious libraries / scheduling systems in place?   Does everyone "roll their own" or do they avoid it for some other reason?
> 
> Oliver has in the review scheduler Boost.Fiber. 
> 
> I'm sure it will be pleasure for you to see at the LibraryUnderConstruction page
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/LibrariesUnderConstruction

Is there any place that the documentation for all of the projects in boost/vault is pre-built?   Having to setup and build a new library before even reviewing the documentation probably hinders adoption and without a publicly browsable set of documentation the library is "un-googleable"

> 
> HTH,
> Vicente 
> 
> 
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