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From the README:
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Coroutines can be used to implement 'cooperative multitasking' (as
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opposed to 'preemptive multitasking'). Coroutines are very
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lightweight (on Win32, they are called 'fibers'), and when combined
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with an I/O-based scheduling system, they can be used to build highly
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scalable network servers.
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Coroutines give you the best of both worlds: the efficiency of
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asynchronous state-machine programming, with the simplicity of
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threaded programming; straight-line, readable code. And they don't
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have the overhead of preemptive threads - nearly everything happens in
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user-space. Also, complexity is lower because you don't have to worry
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about locking access to shared state.
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-Kelly
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kbyanc@posi.net
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