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An alternative to implementing your own fibers is to use user-mode scheduled threads. It has advantages such as these are real threads, so supporting things like thread-local storage is much easier, and is much more forgiving when the code uses blocking system calls. Unfortunately the only mainstream operating system that implements it is Windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/us...


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