Oct. 28, 2011
3:15 p.m.
Mark Shannon wrote:
Stackless provides coroutines. Greenlets are also coroutines (I think).
Lua has them, and is implemented in ANSI C, so it can be done portably.
These all have drawbacks. Greenlets are based on non-portable (and, I believe, slightly dangerous) C hackery, and I'm given to understand that Lua coroutines can't be suspended from within a C function. My proposal has limitations, but it has the advantage of being based on fully portable and well-understood techniques. -- Greg