Re: comparing Lua with other languages

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > Producer Consumer          - Needs threading
> >
> > Can't we use coroutines?
>
> The test case writes about threads, but it wouldn't be the first time 
> the rules be "abused"... :-)
>
> I still didn't get around the coroutines spirit :-<, so I am not sure I 
> can do this myself. But I would be interested to see the result :-)

Note: I think we can provide two implementations: one with pure Lua 
coroutines, and another with, say, LuaThreads.
Usage of external libraries is allowed in the rules.

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