Re: First timer on cooperative multitasking

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
> How difficult would it be to make Lua true multithreaded?  I know that
> is against the intentions of the inventors, but have experiments been
> done in this direction?

There is Diego Nehab's LuaThread:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-07/msg00056.html

Remember that it enforces a global interpreter lock and so the
performance will reflect that.

steve d.