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lmm on Oct 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, ...

Does that mean this system is inappropriate for CPU-bound tasks?

pron on Oct 17, 2013 [–]

The spaceships demo is very much CPU bound.

But, at least for the time being I wouldn't run a long-running, CPU heavy computation in a fiber, but in a plain thread. Fibers work best when they block often.

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