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### Implementations: fcontext_t, ucontext_t and WinFiber

##### fcontext_t

The implementation uses fcontext_t per default. fcontext_t is based on assembler and not available for all platforms. It provides a much better performance than ucontext_t (the context switch takes two magnitudes of order less CPU cycles; see section performance) and WinFiber.

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Because the TIB (thread information block on Windows) is not fully described in the MSDN, it might be possible that not all required TIB-parts are swapped. Using WinFiber implementation migh be an alternative.

##### ucontext_t

As an alternative, ucontext_t can be used by compiling with `BOOST_USE_UCONTEXT` and b2 property `context-impl=ucontext`. ucontext_t might be available on a broader range of POSIX-platforms but has some disadvantages (for instance deprecated since POSIX.1-2003, not C99 conform).

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fiber supports Segmented stacks only with ucontext_t as its implementation.

##### WinFiber

With `BOOST_USE_WINFIB` and b2 property `context-impl=winfib` Win32-Fibers are used as implementation for fiber.

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The first call of fiber converts the thread into a Windows fiber by invoking `ConvertThreadToFiber()`. If desired, `ConvertFiberToThread()` has to be called by the user explicitly in order to release resources allocated by `ConvertThreadToFiber()` (e.g. after using boost.context).