Re: [boost] [coroutine2] Difference between coroutine and coroutine2

Subject: Re: [boost] [coroutine2] Difference between coroutine and coroutine2
From: Rob Stewart (rob.stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-22 04:29:02

On June 21, 2015 6:53:12 AM EDT, Oliver Kowalke <oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 2015-06-21 12:19 GMT+02:00 Aaron Levy <aaron.levy_at_[hidden]>:
> 
> > Are boost::coroutines::symmetric_coroutine<> and
> > boost::coroutines::asymmetric_coroutine<> part of the coroutine
> library or
> > coroutine2 library. Besides being C++14-only, in what ways does
> coroutine2
> > differ from coroutine?
> 
> Coroutine2 provides only boost::coroutines2::asymmetric_coroutine<>
> (boost::coroutines2::coroutine<> is a typedef of the previous one).
> Symmetric_coroutine<> (introduced for boost.fiber) is not implemented
> because its functionality/semantic is better represented by class
> boost::context::execution_context (part of boost.context).
> Class execution_context is used as building block (implementation) of
> boost::coroutines2::asymmetric_coroutine<> - the code becomes cleaner.

If there's only one kind of coroutine in coroutine2, why isn't it just named "coroutine"?

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Rob

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