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Fibers

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, whose incredible Scala World talk describes these ideas far better than I can)

Callback Sequentialization

Consider the following three functions

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Thread Pools

Thread pools on the JVM should usually be divided into the following three categories:

1. CPU-bound
2. Blocking IO
3. Non-blocking IO polling

Each of these categories has a different optimal configuration and usage pattern.

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export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35"

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var webpack = require('webpack');

module.exports = {
  entry: './ui/entry.js',
  output: { path: __dirname + '/public/compiled', filename: 'bundle.js' },
  module: {
    loaders: [
      { test: /\.jsx?$/, loader: 'babel-loader', include: /ui/, query: { presets: ['es2015', 'react'] } }
    ]
  },

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<fontconfig>
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  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
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