Re: Is Lua the next big thing?

[Johann Hibschman <johannh@...>]

Rici Lake wrote:
> The coroutine mechanism is not implemented with threads, although the 
> API calls them threads (which they are, but not OS threads); Lua 
> threads are exposed as instances of a Lua_State, and those Lua_States 
> are related to each other. You probably don't want to run those 
> simultaneously in different OS threads, but it is theoretically 
> possible; the language does not provide any synchronization 
> primitives, though, so you need to implement your own so that related 
> Lua_States don't trod on each other's globals.
I keep wondering about this; wouldn't the garbage collector require some 
synchronization, in order to avoid trouble with multiple Lua-threads 
running in multiple OS-threads?

-Johann