Re: [boost] review request for boost.context

Subject: Re: [boost] review request for boost.context
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-28 03:17:10

Oliver Kowalke wrote:
> Hello John, hello Ronald,
>
> could you add boost.context to the review queue please.
>
> boost.context allows to switch between execution contexts. The state
> of the context which will be left is saved and maybe resumed later.
> It is a kind of POSIX ucontext (fallback on POSIX platforms for
> boost.context) but provides assembler for some platforms (faster and
> some platforms doesn't implement POSIX ucontext because it is
> deprecaded -> ARM).

where is this package to be found and how is it different from
co-routine and maybe fiber?

Robert Ramey