Re: Concurrency in Lua / accessing the Erlang website...

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@...>]

I found the paper mentioned below at (citeseer) 

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/0%2C320453%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/15643/ftp:zSzzSzftp.csd.uu.sezSzpubzSzpaperszSzmasters-theseszSz0089-hedqvist.pdf/hedqvist98parallel.pdf

Just started reading it...

-joe

On 2/1/06, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:

The discussions on this list recently about concurrency got me wondering how "threads" are implemented in Erlang. Apparently they are very lightweight, and issues of portability between Windows/Linux/BSD/OSX have been addressed in some kind of efficient manner.

I wonder if the work done for Erlang might have relevance for Lua.

Via Google, I've seen references to a paper that might go into further detail before digging into the code. The document mentioned is http://www.erlang.se/publications/xjobb/0890hedqvist.pdf.

Unfortunately, it seems my access to www.erlang.org and www.erlang.se is non-existant (and has been for the past 14 hours).

When I have access to the Erlang site, I may have more to offer, but in the meantime, does anyone want to weigh in on this as a possibility in the Lua arena (ErLua)?

-joe