C++Now 2016

The Boost.Fiber library supports fine-grained concurrency within a single thread. It permits you to make efficient use of a given thread's CPU, keeping it busy with other work while a particular fiber waits for asynchronous results. Most significantly, the Fiber library permits you to write and maintain what looks and behaves like simple sequential code, building a hierarchy of abstraction layers per industry best practices, while at the same time reaping the full benefits of asynchronous I/O concurrency. This talk presents an overview of the library, discusses integration with event-driven frameworks and illustrates several useful patterns, including load-balancing work among a pool of threads. Developers who have had to maintain application logic structured as a chain of callbacks, or then() calls, may find this library particularly welcome.