On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 18:05:38 UTC, Etienne wrote:
I think this article puts it well. Bypassing the kernel for
fibers should be a long-term plan :)
http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-million-concurrent-connections-the-kernel-i.html
I have seen one real-world project where it was done. Point is
not about specifically fibers though but scheduling as a whole -
when all resources of the system are supposed to be devoted to a
single service, general-purpose OS scheduling creates problems as
it is intended for universal multi-tasking.
