Re: Lua and preemptive scheduling for coroutines

[Ross Bencina <rossb-lists@...>]

On 29/03/2013 2:35 PM, Tim Hill wrote:
> You're not going to be able to pull that one off. The fundamental
> structure of coroutines is different from threads, and nothing you do
> can really change that (aside from a VERY significant reworking of
> the Lua code base).

I don't know about that, all he's talking about is conditionally 
injecting yeild() into the code at arbitrary points (such as the end of 
each statement)

This could be done manually with a syntactic substitution. The question 
is whether it can be done using a debug hook or similar mechanism.

Ross.