Re: implementing "synchronous webservices" in Lua and C

["David Burgess" <dburgess@...>]

Read up on lua_resume() and lua_yield(). It works rather well with a few
minor constraints. If you want fully resumable C coroutines. See Mike
Palls COCO, which removes the constraints.

db

bert hubert wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 05:40:09PM -0200, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > There might be other ways to achieve the same thing (run everything in Lua
> > > with coroutines, for example), but that doesn't fit my current architecture.
> >
> > What do you mean coroutines do not fit your architecture? It seems to
> > me that what you are describing is exactly coroutines: getLine yields,
> > and then sometime later you push the result in line on the stack and
> > resume that coroutine.
>
> I can actually do that from C? If so, that would be wonderful!
>
> Thanks.
>
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