Re: What's the difference between a "coroutine" and a "thread" in Lua?

["Aaron Brown" <arundelo@...>]

John Klimek wrote:

> Are Lua "coroutines" and "threads" the same exact thing?

Yes:

Lua 5.1.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2007 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print(type(coroutine.create(function() end)))
thread

The non-Lua type of thread can be referred to as an "OS
thread".

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Aaron
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