Re: [Boost-users] [boost.asio] Concurrently Ping 1000+ Hosts

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost.asio] Concurrently Ping 1000+ Hosts
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-20 02:43:57

On 20 Dec 2013 at 8:04, Oliver Kowalke wrote:

> > Are fibers just inherently threads? I read that they have all of the
> > member functions that boost.thread offers. The async functionality looks
> > very useful . At the very least, a promising extension of boost.thread.
> 
> fibers != threads,

I would call a fiber the user space portion of a thread, and 
therefore minus any kernel support.

Niall

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