Hi Wayne, > What version(s) of Windows support fibers? I didn't see any indication > on the links above. See this link:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/128531 Fibers were added to the WIN32-API with the Service Pack 5 for Windows NT 3.51. Quote from the above link: "[..] Service Pack 5 contains 3 additions to the Win32 API: Fibers ------ A fiber is a lightweight thread that is manually scheduled. Fibers do not provide advantages over a well-designed multithreaded application. However, fibers can make it easier to port applications that were designed to schedule their own threads. [..]" So any actual desktop Windows version (XP and later) should support these functions. I've tried the provided example from Microsoft on MSYS2 / Windows 10 (64 Bit) and it was running well. > I don't have any strong opinions either way. However, I did not write > the code. Tom may have a stronger opinion about this than I do since he > wrote the code. Personally I'm not the biggest fan of coroutines. I > know the make the code easier to read but I'm not convinced they are > necessary in an event driven design. This is true, but as you have written - the code is easier to read. Another alternatives would be to use state machines (with switch/case etc.) or stackless coroutines (Protothreads are an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protothreads). In Python are Coroutines a language concept, see also https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators . An example use case would be a long running computation, with a coroutine you could yield to the main thread and update a status bar or similar. Thanks, Torsten _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
