Re: idea of vision of blueprint of ROADMAP of Lua core

[Wim Couwenberg <w.couwenberg@...>]

> Why would you want to remove coroutines?

Short answer: I don't need them.  Our Lua based systems already ran 
completely pre-emptively multi threaded on a vanilla Lua 4.0.1 core.  Of 
course we allow only a single thread per lua_State (or the locking 
overhead would indeed be unacceptable).  States share information via a 
marshalling mechanism.

I played around with several alternative scenario's when coroutines were 
introduced.  Of course you can program some sweet stuff with them, but 
in the end, I really cannot say that our "old" approach is outdated.  I 
run co-routineless multithreaded programs in Lua 5.0.2 painlessly.

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Wim