On: A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

[mitxela]

Stackful coroutines are just traditional threads.

[jandrewrogers → mitxela]

Stackful coroutines are cooperatively scheduled, unlike traditional threads, and context switch much more inexpensively. It is the reason people write stackful coroutine libraries instead of just using threads.

[mitxela → jandrewrogers]

Threads were traditionally cooperatively scheduled, too. Expensive context switch is an artifact of implementation.