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

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Suggestion to the Lua authors:

In next version, you might consider using "coroutine" everywhere  
where thread now is (including the type name!). This is because  
multithreading packets will be more and more used, like LuaSocket  
already is for net stuff, and the "thread" reference does confuse  
people.

With multithreading packages, there will be "threads" (the threads  
the packets provide, Lua constructs) and "OS threads" (the underlying  
threads, which might or might not have a 1:1 mapping to Lua threads).  
And OS threads map to kernel and user threads.... :)

-asko


John Klimek kirjoitti 10.8.2007 kello 6:15:

> I'm a little confused because the terms "coroutine" and "thread" are
> used somewhat interchangeably in the Lua documentation.
>
> Are Lua "coroutines" and "threads" the same exact thing?
>
> Thanks...