From: "Paul Ranson" 

That would be event driven from the network transport, no point in fiberising it.

Paul

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
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>> But fibers came after threads, so fibers are generally only used when the
>> application can benefit from doing its own scheduling. A search for
>> fiber,
>> sqlserver and msdn should turn up a couple of interesting articles.
>
> I know the perfect usage for fibers, it could be used to create a really
> fast traceroute program. One thread to do the traceroute but multiple
> fibers
> each resolving a single node along the route. Because each has to wait for
> input, the app thread should do the scheduling based on demand.
>
> Have I got the idea of your scheduling comment?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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