headlessclayton

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   by headlessclayton 7y ago

   Marl does exactly this. The scheduler guarantees that once a task is started on a particular thread, it will only resume on that same thread. This allows us to save a bare minimum of registers and state. Some more info here: https:/&#
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   by headlessclayton 7y ago

   > I wish you could create a version based setJmp/longJmp if instrinsics weren't available (say on a different processor, like AVR). That could really help! There is an implementation that uses ucontext, which you can enable wit
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   by headlessclayton 7y ago

   Author here. Marl was originally written for SwiftShader¹ a pure-software implementation of the Vulkan graphics API, which needs to run on desktop and embedded devices, with CPUs ranging from 2 to many cores. SwiftShader executes a number o
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   A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11(github.com)

   107 points by headlessclayton 7y ago|33 comments