RE: Multithreading

["Tim McDaniel" <tim@...>]

I assume by "Lua universe", you mean everything derived from one call to lua_open?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br 
> [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Mark Hamburg
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:55 AM
> To: Lua list
> Subject: Re: Multithreading
> 
> No. The garbage collector is shared across the Lua universe.
> 
> You can, however, create multiple Lua universes and run them 
> from separate threads. This is generally much more efficient 
> than the LuaThreads approach but does require building a 
> gateway to communicate information across universes.
> 
> Mark
> 
> on 3/14/05 9:45 AM, Tim McDaniel at tim@medusalabs.com wrote:
> 
> > I understand that the child lua_States created with lua_newthread 
> > share their global table with the parent lua_State.  It is also 
> > apparent that Lua has no inherent synchronization.  I am aware of 
> > LuaThread, but let's ignore that for now... :)
> > 
> > So, my question is...
> > If I have a parent lua_State loaded with all my script, can 
> I create 
> > child lua_States and safely call them from multiple 
> threads, as long 
> > as they do not modify the global table?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
> > 
> > 
> 
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