Re: Manual timeslicing the VM.

[David Morris-Oliveros <david@...>]

Are coroutines closed? They're created through lua_newthread(), but not 
closed with lua_close() right?

When you're finished with one, you just let it die and leave it alone, 
dangling inside lua, right?

Mike Pall wrote:

> Hi,
>
> David Morris-Oliveros wrote:
>  
>
> > It would be similar to the hooks in lua, but rather lua calling the hook 
> > every 5 instructions, i let it execute those 5 instructions, then it 
> > comes back to me.
> >    
>
> That's inversion of control. Lua already supports that with the
> help of coroutines. And lucky you, you can yield from a count hook
> (or line hook).
>
>
>  
[...snip...]

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