Re: Coroutines and blocking IO

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@...>]

On 1/26/06, Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:

On Thursday 26 January 2006 1:27 pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Implementing threads isn't really needed, lua code in a loop can
> always yield if it wants to. What you can't fix is a system call that
> doesn't return for ten seconds.

right, another example of a successfull nonblocking IO is the 'classic' MacOS
(pre X).

Care to share some links/examples? Is this model applicable to Lua?

regards,
-joe

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Javier

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