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- Subject: Re: What's the difference between a "coroutine" and a "thread" in Lua?
- From: David Given <dg@...>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:16:34 +0100
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Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Ana Lucia Moura <analuciadm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I heartily recommend using "coroutine", the proper denomination for the
>> concept, which was introduced more than 40 years ago :)
>
> Which concept, coroutines or threads? They're not synonymous.
Just out of interest, under what situations would one use a Lua thread (usual
terminology from the manual), *without* having it also be a coroutine?
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