Fiber (computer science)
Lightweight thread of execution in the field of computer science / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In computer science, a fiber is a particularly lightweight thread of execution.
Like threads, fibers share address space. However, fibers use cooperative multitasking while threads use preemptive multitasking. Threads often depend on the kernel's thread scheduler to preempt a busy thread and resume another thread; fibers yield themselves to run another fiber while executing.