Gideros has threads?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2013

  It's event driven, not procedural. You could use a timer to drive an event?
  

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• speeder_kidoteca Member

  August 2013

  I said threads, not coroutines (this Lua already do).
  
  Because I literally want to do more than one thing at once, even better if I can use several cores of a system.
  
  Mostly, to do async asset loading (ie: load level 2 while player plays level 1)

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  as per my understanding currently there is only one thread so Timers are good option for now
  
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  August 2013

  Yes there is only one thread, and most probably you could only create a separate thread from the native code inside the plugin and use it for plugin stuff only, meaning you would probably not be able to load assets in it, but rather perform some heavy calculations, etc.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2013

  I think that adding threads to Gideros would only complicate things and slow your program down, Lua does cope with multi-threading but for accessing globals you need to lock/unlock before accessing them - a real slow down, and Lua isn't really up to it.
  
  When LuaJIT comes along it might be fast enough though?
  
  https://github.com/ColonelThirtyTwo/LuaJIT-Threads

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• speeder_kidoteca Member

  August 2013

  Maybe support threads that don't support globals?

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• gmarinov Member

  August 2013

  Lua has no threads.
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2013

  There are libs to add multi-threading to Lua. There are a few different ones, I personally think we should wait for LuaJIT as I think LuaJIT may go multithreaded in the future anyhow (seperate to normal Lua).

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