What's the difference between the spawn(fuc) and the coroutine?

[roasted_shrimps]

I’m wondering about the difference between the spawn(fuc) and the coroutine?
Could you explain?
I use spawn(fuc) usually, if the fuc doesn’t need parameters.
If there are problems on spawn(fuc), i’ll change them to coroutine

[sjr04 (uep)]

Coroutines V.S. Spawn()... Which one should I use?

EDIT (2020-08-12): This post gets a lot of attention. If you want to learn more, you can read this brief article. Please do not use spawn. It’s a hold-over from Roblox’s 30hz pipeline and has no guarantees about when (or if) it will begin executing the new thread. spawn is especially evil because it seems innocent at first, but once you have a lot of code that all uses spawn, you can see significant delays in execution upwards of several seconds in a resource-intensive game. Roblox throttles e…

[AnasBahauddinI978]

not hard. spawn is a delay (and a pretty long one) and coroutine doesn’t have a delay, you will start noticing delays when you use spawn often

[rogchamp (pasta)]

@AnasBahauddinI978

spawn is a delay (and a pretty long one)

By default it’s only a thirtieth of a second, so not really that long of a delay. It’s only the fact that yielding at all can defer the thread that makes it noticeable, as explained by the thread incapaz posted.