Other coroutine libraries

Assorted coroutine, fibers and green thread libraries and resources

Libraries

• Low Level
  • libcoro -- very low level, just does the coroutine switching, cross-platform
  • fcontext -- x86_64 only
  • Cthreads -- Very efficient, x86_64 and x86_32 only
  • libcoroutine -- A different libcoroutine, with variadic function calls
• Coroutines
  • libconcurrent & libconcurrent homepage
  • Portable Coroutine Library (PCL)
  • libconcurrency
  • libcoroutine
  • libco
  • libaco -- A blazing fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library (also with a detailed math proof).
• Fibers/Green-Threads
  • libtask
  • State Threads
  • GNU Pth
  • RIBS -- Robust Infrastructure for Backend Systems
  • threads.c (at the bottom of the page)
  • Protothreads
  • libfiber
  • libevfibers -- based on libcoro and libev
  • lthread
  • fiber-framework
  • rinoo
  • cgreenlet
  • millc -- Preprocessor that adds GoLang-like syntactic sugar to writing of user-space-threads
  • Continuation Passing C - language based on C with tree transformation approach.
  • qthreads - lightweight locality-aware user-level threading runtime with multiple green-thread schedulers, including an M:N one with work stealing

Unsorted

• https://github.com/mikewei/micoro
• https://github.com/Zewo/libvenice
• https://github.com/geofft/vireo

Resources

• Revisiting Coroutines by Ana Lucia de Moura and Roberto Ierusalimschy -- an expansive discussion of different coroutines and their classification and uses
• Coroutine (Wikipedia)
• Fiber (Wikipedia)
• Green Threads (Wikipedia)
• "minimal user-level thread package"
• Coroutines in C by Simon Tatham
• Coroutines in C Redux
• A Minimal User-Level Thread Package by Douglas W. Jones
• Cooperative Task Management -- A 2002 USENIX paper from Microsoft that describes the software engineering advantages and disadvantages of different concurrency models in great detail.