Microthreading
Iterator-based Microthreading
Mon, 2010-02-01 06:05 — MichaelBack in May, I was wrapping PhyreEngine and porting the samples to C#. To extend one of them and demonstrate some of the capabilities of C#, Miguel and I decided to use simple iterator-based microthreading, which simulates multithreading but with many microthreads within a single real thread. Unity does something like it in their game engine too. It enables you to use a very imperative style of coding, as if using a single dedicated thread for each, but without anywhere near the overhead of real threads.
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