Re: C++ preferences

[Hans Åberg]

> On 13 Sep 2018, at 21:30, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Le 13 sept. 2018 à 20:56, Hans Åberg <address@hidden> a écrit :
>> 
>>> And the model is really different,
>>> interruptions are controlled with coroutines, while threads are
>>> preemptive.  These two models are not equivalent at all imho.
>> 
>> I found coroutines not so intuitive, so threads would be better if one can 
>> accept some overhead. Also, threads can be run a pool to lessen the 
>> overhead. This way, I made a tree-engine as opposed to a sequence of 
>> stackengines.
> 
> No possible comparison.  You can have 100.000 of coroutines
> which any problems.  And again, the sheer fact that you decide
> when you yield to another coroutine changes everything; e.g.,
> most of the time you don’t have to lock.

The libcppsim library uses real coroutines and not threads according to the 
paper [1]. Download [2-3].

1. 
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a446/b51798dc776b0b1c88b562907a90f6a66de3.pdf
2. https://www.moreno.marzolla.name/software/libcppsim-0.2.5.tar.gz
3. https://www.moreno.marzolla.name/software/