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Subject: Re: [boost] Any interest in a M:N green threading library?
From: Klaim - Joël Lamotte (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-12 11:08:23


On 12 August 2015 at 16:20, Xu Chen <windoze.net_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Just cleanup some codes I wrote before, there is a M:N green threading
> library built on top of Boost.Thread and Boost.Coroutine, conceptually it
> works like goroutines in Go and (once existed) green threads in Rust.
>
> With some refinements, it now supports all C++11/14 threading standard,
> along with some extensions exist in Boost.Thread such as thread_group and
> chainable futures.
>
> It can be integrated with Boost.ASIO, all ASIO async functions can be used
> as sync ones in green threads, similar to Boost.ASIO/Boost.Coroutine
> integration.
>
> Also it has some facilities to communicate with foreign threads, can by
> used to integrate with external libs such as database drivers.
>
> The code can be found at https://github.com/windoze/boost.green_thread
>
> I don't know much about boostbook tools so the documents are kind of
> crippled, but I'll improve it if needed.
>
> Regards,
> Chen Xu
>
>
I am not an expert in the domain but am I correct that you are proposing
similar
functionality to Boost.Fiber? ( https://github.com/olk/boost-fiber )


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