Re: green-threads in lua

["Javier Guerra" <javier@...>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Ivan Gagis <igagis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I saw some discussion about different implementations of threads in lua, but
> no one talked about green threads.
>
> In my opinion introducing the green treads would be a very good alternative
> to all implementations of threads (with native OS threads) existing at the
> moment and coroutines.

does green threads offer any hard advantage on modern systems? most
java VMs have migrated away from them...

(i know, Erlang and friends do that; but i think their architecture
offers special benefits from greeness that wouldn't transfer to Lua)

-- 
Javier