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Re:Squirrel Programming Language by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:30PM (#12082710)
You can run multiple interpreters, embedded in the same application, in separate threads: multiplexing, as you have multiple instances, as opposed to multithreading, where you have a single instance.
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Re:Squirrel Programming Language by safewayclubcard on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @07:29PM (#12082961)
Is that what https://github.com/rvirding/luerl is doing in the erlang VM?

From the docs:

> It should give you a Lua environment that allows you to effortlessly run tens of thousands of Lua processes in parallel, leveraging the famed microprocesses implementation of the Erlang VM. The empty Luerl State footprint will be yet smaller than the C Lua State footprint.

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Re:Squirrel Programming Language by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @08:59PM (#12083328)
Yes. Lua does it quite well by default. Apparently, luerl aspires to do it better.
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