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• Threads and Goroutines
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023

  Thanks for this article.

  I want to combine the benefits of kernel threads with coroutines or goroutines/green threads/lightweight threads. (If anybody knows anything specifically about fibers, I'd appreciate that because I'm not familiar with them.)

  I have a lightweight thread scheduler https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread which is a 1:M:N scheduler (1 scheduler thread, M kernel threads, N lightweight threads) with the lightweight threads being multiplexed on the kernel threads.

  I am working on a multithreaded architecture which I all 3 tier multithreaded architecture. It combines request parallelism with IO and CPU parallelism and intra request parallelism.

  We split kernel threads into three groups: app threads, which run lightweight threads, IO threads (liburing/epoll) and traditional CPU threadpool with work stealing.

  * The IO threads have buffers that other threads can write to to queue up data for sockets.

• Async rust – are we doing it all wrong?
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023

  How would you do control flow and scheduling and parallelism and async efficiently with this code?

  `db.save()`, `download()` are IO intensive whereas `document.query("a")` and `parse` is CPU intensive.

  I think its work diagram looks like this: https://github.com/samsquire/dream-programming-language/blob...

  I've tried to design a multithreaded architecture that is scalable which combines lightweight threads + thread pools for work + control threads for IO epoll or liburing loops:

  Here's the high level diagram:

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas5/blob/main/NonblockingRun...

  The secret is modelling control flow as a data flow problem and having a simple but efficient scheduler.

  I wrote about schedulers here and binpacking work into time:

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4#196-binpacking-work-into...

  I also have a 1:M:N lightweight thread scheduler/multiplexer:

  https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

• Coroutines for Go
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023

  * I want to keep IO and CPU in flight at all times.

  I think I want this schedule:

  https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1983701/254083968-...

  I have a toy 1:M:L 1 scheduler thread:M kernel threads:N lightweight threads lightweight scheduler in C, Rust and Java

  https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

  This lets me switch between tasks and preempt them from user space without assistance at descheduling time.

  I have a simplistic async/await state machine thread pool in Java. My scheduling algorithm is very simple.

  I want things like backpressure, circuit breakers, rate limiting, load shedding, rate adjustment, queuing.

• Goroutines: The concurrency model we wanted all along
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2023

  Thanks for this article and to ingve for submitting it.

  Concurrency and async is my favourite topic. I wrote a very simple toy lightweight 1:M:N (1 scheduler:M kernel threads:N lightweight threads) thread scheduler in C, Rust and Java.

  https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

  It works on the principle that hot loops can be interrupted BY ANOTHER THREAD (the scheduler thread) on a timer, to give lightweight threads a chance to execute.

  What I think I want today though is an extremely rich process/concurrency API that resembles a stream API but for processes. For example, we should be able to create pipelines that can be paused, resumed, forked, merged, drop_while, iterate_until and whatever else would be useful.

• Coroutines make robot code easy for high schoolers
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023

  I really like this.

  Thank you for your comment and sharing.

  I have a lightweight 1:M:N runtime (1 scheduler thread, M kernel threads, N lightweight threads) which preempts by setting hot loops to the limit.

  https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread (Rust, Java and C)

  How do you preempt code that is running?

• Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It? v2023.06.11a
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jun 2023

  https://github.com/samsquire/ideas5/blob/main/NonblockingRun...

  The design is that we have three groupings of thread types. The application starts up some application threads which are not associated with a request, these service multiconsumer multiproducer thread safe ringbuffers in lightweight threads with a Go-erlang-like lightweight process runtime. (My simple lightweight thread runtime is https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread) We also multiplex multiple network clients sockets across a set number of kernel threads which I call control threads. Their responsibility is to dispatch work to a work stealing thread pool ASAP which has its own group of threads. So we pay a thread synchronization cost ONCE per IO which is the dispatch from the control thread to a thread pool thread. (Presumably this is fast, because the thread pool threads are all looping on a submission queue)

  We split all IO and CPU tasks into two halves: submit and handle reply. I assume you can use liburing or epoll in the control threads. The same with CPU tasks and use ringbuffers to communicate between threads. We can always serve client's requests because we're never blocked on handling someone else's request. The control thread is always unblocked.

  I think this article is good regarding Python's asyncio story:

• Zig Language Server and Cancellation
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2023

  I am deeply interested in the multithreading, parallelism, async and coroutine design space and I journal about it everyday in my ideas journal.

  I wrote a toy very simple 1:M kernel threads:N lightweight thread runtime in terrible Rust, C and Java.

  Hot loops use a structure for its limit and looping variable. Then to cancel the loop, you set the looping variable to the limit from a scheduling thread, cancelling the loop. This is used for process switching and scheduling but it can also be used for cancellation.

  Can create very responsive code this way, it's even possible to cancel while (true) loops by replacing them with while (!preempted) {}.

  https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

  There is potential for a race, but that can be detected and worked around.

• Notes on my incomplete JIT compiler
  5 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 20 Apr 2023

  I also have a M:N m kernel threads to N lightweight thread userspace preemptive scheduler at https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread It would be nice to schedule lightweight threads in a JIT compiler. Imagine being capable of running processes similar to BEAM and Go but with JIT.

• Erlang: More Optimizations in the Compiler and JIT
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2023

  This is interesting, thank you.

  I really should learn from BEAM and the OTP and learn Erlang. I get the feeling it's super robust and reliable and low maintenance. I wrote a userspace multithreaded scheduler which distributes N lightweight threads to M kernel threads.

  https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

  I recently wrote a JIT compiler and got lazy compilation of machine code working and I'm nowhere near beginning optimisation

  https://github.com/samsquire/compiler

  How do you write robust software, that doesn't crash when something unexpected goes on?

  I looked at sozo https://github.com/sozu-proxy/sozu

  and I'm thinking how to create something that just stays up and running regardless.

• Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2023

  I wrote a preemptive 1:M:N scheduler in C, Rust and Java.

  https://github.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

  It is a 1:M:N scheduler where there is one scheduler thread, M kernel threads and N lightweight threads. I take advantage that loop indexes can be structures and can be modified by other threads. So we can set the thread's looping variable to the limit to end the current loop and pause it and then schedule another thread.

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