Question about multi-threading in Lua

["Pete Kay" <petedao@...>]

Hi,

I am working on an application that connects to a server through TCP/IP socket and listen for events continuously.  When a certain event is picked up, the application should performance some tasks.  

What I want to do is to use Lua socket to listen for the events and then create a new thread each time a particular event type is received.  

I found that there are two ways to do it, one is using coroutine and the other one is to install Lua Thread.

It seems like they are very similar but I don't quite understand when it is better to us coroutine or LuaThread.  

Could someone give me some suggestions?

Thanks,
Pete