Fibers are an abstraction over sequential computation, similar to threads but at a higher level. There are two ways to think about this model: by example, and abstractly from first principles. We'll start with the example.
(credit here is very much due to Fabio Labella, who's incredible Scala World talk describes these ideas far better than I can)
Consider the following three functions
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With the release of Node 6.0.0, the surface of code that needs transpilation to use ES6 features has been reduced very dramatically.
This is what my current workflow looks like to set up a minimalistic and fast microservice using micro and async + await.
| #!/bin/bash -e | |
| # a script that extracts the subtitle file of every mkv movie file and saves it with the same name | |
| # copy to the folder where the mkv files live and run "./mkvextractTracks.sh" in terminal | |
| # options: [trackID] | |
| # example: ./mkvextractTracks.sh 1 | |
| # | |
| # info: | |
| # mkvextract is used to extract the subtitles, so mkvtoolnix app (which contains the mkvextract binary) is used: | |
| # https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html |
| # Compiled source # | |
| ################### | |
| *.com | |
| *.class | |
| *.dll | |
| *.exe | |
| *.o | |
| *.so | |
| # Packages # |
| # activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb | |
| # Maps logical Rails types to MySQL-specific data types. | |
| def type_to_sql(type, limit = nil, precision = nil, scale = nil) | |
| return super unless type.to_s == 'integer' | |
| case limit | |
| when 1; 'tinyint' | |
| when 2; 'smallint' | |
| when 3; 'mediumint' | |
| when nil, 4, 11; 'int(11)' # compatibility with MySQL default |
| require 'net/http' | |
| module Net | |
| class HTTP | |
| def self.enable_debug! | |
| raise "You don't want to do this in anything but development mode!" unless Rails.env == 'development' | |
| class << self | |
| alias_method :__new__, :new | |
| def new(*args, &blk) | |
| instance = __new__(*args, &blk) | |
| instance.set_debug_output($stderr) |
