On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> Indeed, our fiber model is compatible with filesystem I/O, but does not
> *mandate* that implementations support threads if a better-than-POSIX
> model is available on the target operating system.  Async I/O works fine
> on Windows for instance, and does not require a thread-per-operation.
>

I fully agree with this point! The trick is to take the view from fibers
and down rather than from a (specific) kernel and up. And you can easily
make this run asynchronously on systems where it is really possible to do
so.


-- 
J.