Re: yield, resume and the like

[Peter Shook <pshook@...>]

Welcome aboard Matthew,

I'm not a gamer, but I'll stick my neck out.

Matthew Harmon wrote:
>   1) Is a coroutine just a Lua wrapper for handling threads?  From the
> documentation, I’m not exactly sure if this is the case, but a quick peek at
> the code seems to imply this.

Yes.

>   2) Similarly, the documentation implies that only coroutines can be
> yielded and resumed.  However, I am yielding and resuming a thread just
> fine.  Is this ok?

Yes, it's okay.

>   3) If I want to have 10 or 20 scripts going at once (usually in a yield
> state), I assume I should fire off a new thread for each, and not create a
> new Lua state for each?

Sure, use one lua_State and many threads.  Then you can share some basic 
settup and move values between threads if you want to.

- Peter