Re: Is there an easier way to cancel threads???

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> > However, there will always be someone asking: "Why doesn't
> > Lua have multi-threading support?"
>
> You can get the best of both worlds by providing a simple coroutine
> scheduler, and make versions of all the AIO primitives that block the
> calling coroutine, and schedule a waiting coroutine by dequeuing the
> IOCP.

Now that everyone has dual core processors, and this tends
to move to even more cores, how is the single-threaded AIO
going to compare to multi-threading?

Regards,
Diego.