Re: implementing a future in lua

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "李慧霸" <magazine.lihuiba@163.com>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: implementing a future in lua


> Yielding across metamethods seem not to be supported. In contrast, lanes 
> doesn't
> need to yield, they just block to wait for results from other preemptive
> threads.

Sorry I hadn't thought of that.  Coco's probably the best solution, but if 
you prefer to keep ansi c there is the 
http://lua-users.org/wiki/ResumableVmPatch.  Or perhaps do away with the 
metamethods idea and modify c side, but it still won't be easy/neat. Good 
luck :).

- Alex