Cooperative Multitasking
Explore cooperative multitasking by learning how fibers enable efficient concurrency in D programming. Understand the benefits of explicit yielding, reduced context switching, and data caching advantages compared to preemptive multitasking. This lesson helps you manage execution flow within a single thread while avoiding race conditions and optimizing program performance.
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Cooperative multitasking
Unlike operating system threads, which are paused (suspended) and resumed by the operating system at unknown points in time, a fiber pauses itself explicitly and is resumed by its caller explicitly. According to this distinction, the kind of multitasking that the operating system provides is called preemptive multitasking and the kind that fibers provide is called cooperative multitasking.
Preemptive multitasking
In preemptive multitasking, the operating system allots a certain amount of time to a thread when it starts or resumes its ...