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

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

Asko Kauppi wrote:
> Does someone have a reason why VM based real multithreading would  
> have better performance?

For a start, it doesn't require any context switching - it doesn't need
to involve the kernel at all.  Of course, it also means you'll only be
able to take advantage of one CPU.

B.