Thread imbalance

[Neil Hodgson]

Ivan Voras wrote:

> opinion, but by "good threading implementation" I mean that all threads 
> in the application should run "natively" on the underlying (p)threads 
> library at all times, without implicit serialization. For example, Java 
> and perl do this, possibly also lua and C#. 

    Lua has coroutines rather than threads. It can cooperate with 
threading implemented by a host application or library.

    See the coroutines chapter in
http://www.lua.org/pil/index.html

    Neil