Re: Lua 5.2: environment table and coroutine

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

On Apr 3, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:

>> I guess my questions is :
>>  Does the time it take to construct a coroutine state (in C) far
>> exceed the time that it would take to re-initialize (the stack) of
>> an existing coroutine that has thrown an error?
> 
> Probably yes. But you should also ask another question: how frequently
> will you need to construct a new coroutine instead of reusing one?  If
> it only happens in case of errors, maybe the first question is not that
> relevant.

Lightroom recycles coroutines but only if they don't terminate in an error.

Mark