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MiniVM uses coroutines already, every 1000 branches the vm will return to the scheduler. The Build system can accept CFLAGS+=-DVM_BRANCH_DEFER which makes MiniVM able to run part of bytecode up-to N instructions.

It is not exposed on the insruction level yet tho. Would be quite easy to add.

[samatman]

Ah thank you, that's very promising! It was the kind of thing I wanted to hear, I write Lua every day and four data types didn't appear to support 'thread'.

I might just kick the tires on this over the weekend.

[rgrmrts]

That’s cool. Have you played around with that number? I’m curious how you pick that constant and what the trade offs are

[exikyut]

It might be interesting to be able to tell the VM to resume into code for exactly N instructions or branches. I can see instrumentation/debugging tooling using this with N=1 for example.