On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 17:10 +0000, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Fibers are more lightweight, they're not kernel objects. Threads > are scheduled by kernel (usually). Fibers are better if you can > get better resource usage with manual scheduling - less context > switches, or don't want to consume resources need by threads.
Or to put it another way, fibres (!) are what threads were before the hardware and kernel folks changed the game. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder