Re: Lua 4.1 release on <insert date here>...

["J. Perkins" <jason@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

> I am not sure if its clear that Lua 4.1 will "support" coroutines as long
> as you have a C library for coroutines (for instance ET's one, or those
> that use longjmps); that is, it will co-operate with C for the task. We
> are not implementing a "stackless" Lua, but a Lua with multiple stacks.
> You need some way to create multiple stacks in C, and then each Lua stack
> will run in paralel with its corresponding C stack.


I haven't had a chance to look at the pre-release yet, but will it 
support doing something like Bret M. did in GF? That is, I don't need to 
have C-level coroutines. I want to have a list of Lua execution 
"threads", and a simple C scheduler that just steps through and runs 
each process until it either calls a wait() function, or it executes a 
certain number of opcodes. Lightweight and effective. I was under the 
impression that 4.1 would support this model, but after following this 
thread I'm not so sure anymore.

Jason
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