Re: Scalability of Lua, many small vs. few big lua_States?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
>
> A lua_State is simply a thread, and if you are only accessing it via the
> coroutine library it is idiomatic Lua (=nice) even if you have a huge
> table of coroutines.

  Careful with the terminology here.  You have system (possibly pthread)
threads, and then Lua threads (coroutines).  Two quite different beasts.

  -spc