Re: What's the difference between a "coroutine" and a "thread" in Lua?

[Daniel Quintela <dq@...>]

Duck escribió:
> [...]
>
> This is sort-of what LuaTask does. It's kind of like old-school 
> share-nothing parallelism (anyone remember the Transputer :-) 
> implemented inside Lua using OS-level threads, and with a built-in, 
> simple and inexpensive IPC/synchronisation mechanism using message 
> passing.
Errr... I am not so young... ;-)
> The only problem with LuaTask is that (sorry, Daniel :-) the current 
> release version has an unremediated critical bug, and that there are 
> some question marks over its production-readiness from at least one 
> theoretical analysis, and from one practical report, recently 
> published on this list. But the core idea is very neat. Multithreaded 
> multitasking without all those !$@%^% mutexes:-)
Thanks... (I guess...)
LuaTask 1.6.2 is around the corner... I'm testing right now.

Regards,
DQ