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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2019-05-06 21:02, schrieb Tomasz Wlostowski:
> On 06/05/2019 09:48, Jeff Young wrote:
> > 1) I hate the coroutines.  They truncate backtraces in the debugger.
>
> Hi,
>
> How about using ucontext.h on Unices (Linux/OSX) and WinFiber API on
> Windows? I have working implementation of the latter already in the 
> MSVC
> branch. Are there any reasons to not use ucontext under Linux/OSX?

I'm sure you've seen this:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/context/doc/html/context/performance.html

tldr; ucontext_t is really a bummer, performance-wise.

Maybe we look into Boost::Fiber?  It is stack-ful and as long as we 
stick to the the defined API, we should not hit the issues we had in the 
past with the low-level stuff.

-S