Fibers

Fibers is a facility that provides Go-like concurrency for Guile Scheme, in the tradition of Concurrent ML.

A pasteable introduction to using Fibers

;; Paste this into your guile interpreter!

(use-modules (fibers) (fibers channels) (ice-9 match))

(define (server in out)
  (let lp ()
    (match (pk 'server-received (get-message in))
      ('ping! (put-message out 'pong!))
      ('sup   (put-message out 'not-much-u))
      (msg    (put-message out (cons 'wat msg))))
    (lp)))

(define (client in out)
  (for-each (lambda (msg)
              (put-message out msg)
              (pk 'client-received (get-message in)))
            '(ping! sup)))

(run-fibers
 (lambda ()
   (let ((c2s (make-channel))
         (s2c (make-channel)))
     (spawn-fiber (lambda () (server c2s s2c)))
     (client s2c c2s))))

If you paste the above at into a Guile REPL, it prints out:

;;; (server-received ping!)

;;; (client-received pong!)

;;; (server-received sup)

;;; (client-received not-much-u)

Contact info

Mailing List: guile-user@gnu.org

Homepage: https://github.com/wingo/fibers

Download: https://github.com/wingo/fibers/releases

Manual: https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual

Build dependencies

Guile 2.1.7 or newer (https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/).

If you build from source you also need autoconf, automake and libtool.

Installation quickstart

Install from a release tarball using the standard autotools incantation:

./configure --prefix=/opt/guile && make && make install

Build from Git is the same, except run autoreconf -vif first.

You can run without installing, just run ./env guile.

Copying Fibers

Distribution of Fibers is under the LGPLv3+. See the COPYING and COPYING.LESSER files for more information.

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