Re: A Question of Style

[Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@...>]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Brian Maher once stated:
>> On the issue of calling Lua functions from C, you might want to avoid
>> doing that since it prevents the default Lua from working properly
>> with coroutines.
>
>  How so?  I wrote a framework (that I need to put up somewhere) that works
> fine with coroutines.  In fact, it launches a new Lua coroutine everytime a
> new TCP connection is made, with each Lua "thread" handling a connection and
> it's driven completely from C.

You can't yield across a C call boundary. Not without luajit or coco.

Sam