Jetlang's fibers are not really fibers?

[Magnus Holm]

Hey folks,

It seems to me that Jetlang's fibers really aren't fibers at all. The whole of fibers is that they can be suspended/resumed in the middle of a code block. Jetlang's fibers are more like a channel where you publish Runnables, and there's thread that automatically pulls stuff from the channel and runs it.

Did I misunderstand something, or is this the case?

[peter royal]

you have accurately described how jetlang works. 

java doesn't let you achieve what 'fiber' means in other programming contexts exactly. however, I think it's behavior is a reasonable approximation (and suspend/resume could be implemented with the boundary between Runnable's being the valid pause points). 

-pete

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[Winter Young]

So this means if I blocked in a runnable, the backing thread would block, like akka, right?

[Mike Rettig]

Jetlang is a lightweight java library. It doesn't change how threads
works in the jvm. If code executes that blocks on I/O then the thread
blocks. However, that choice is up to the developer. There are plenty
of non-blocking api's available if you don't want your thread to
block. With fibers, the easy solution is to replace the blocking call
with a channel publish. Another fiber can subscribe and process the
events asynchronously, even blocking if necessary.

If you want lightweight threads, then maybe pool fibers might be
better. Each ThreadFiber is backed by an OS thread. If it is a pool
fiber, then the fiber doesn't block a thread when it is awaiting work.
All runnables are executed by the threads in the configured thread
pool. The pool fibers are simple objects (no thread creation), so they
are lightweight and scale well. ThreadFibers and pool fibers can be
used in the same app.

https://github.com/jetlang/core/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jetlang/fibers/PoolFiberFactory.java
https://github.com/jetlang/core/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jetlang/fibers/ThreadFiber.java

Mike

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