Re: Why does coroutine.create return a thread?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Gregg Reynolds <dev@mobileink.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 21, 2016 3:02 PM, "Coda Highland" <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Gregg Reynolds <dev@mobileink.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Jun 21, 2016 10:45 AM, "Roberto Ierusalimschy"
>> > <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
>> > wrote:
>> > ...
>> >> Right: couroutine is a specific use case of a Lua thread. As it is the
>> >> only use of threads inside Lua code, we can say that, looking from Lua,
>> >> coroutine = thread.
>> >
>> > Is it correct to say that a Lua thread is a fiber?  I.e. not an OS or
>> > pthread?
>> >
>> > - gregg
>>
>> Yes, that could be considered accurate, as fibers are a
>> cooperative-multitasking construct.
>>
>
> the amazingly cool thing is that we can have cooperative multitasking even
> with a single sequential thread of execution.  magic.  kinda makes you
> rethink your concept of execution,  thread, etc.

The fun part is when you realize that before Windows 95, the entire
Windows operating system was cooperatively multitasked, and apps were
expected to yield quickly when awakened by the OS.

/s/ Adam