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Re:What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source by ufo on Monday March 18, 2013 @11:31PM (#5398743)
You are right that they could use a carefully crafted API to work around the problems. Its also true that yields across C were added in 5.2 but you need to code the C functions in continuation-passing-style using a special API to take advantage of that.

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#4.7

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Re:What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source by gngeal on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @07:32AM (#5400215)
Well, two other options for you are using the coco library with stock Lua 5.1.x, or simply using LuaJIT.
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