Re: futures in lua?

[Graham Wakefield <lists@...>]

In fact, my interest is more academic than practical right now.  And  
in my case, I have a kind of co-operative (single threaded) context,  
but with asynchronous callbacks from C++ coming after the lua chunk  
has run; this is why I may still have indeterminate futures and a  
desire to avoid blocking.

On Mar 1, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Asko Kauppi wrote:

> The code mentioned in the 2006-03 mail is co-operative and - 
> frankly- I fail to see the added value it brings (please,  
> enlighten..) :)
>
> A few weeks back, I said to make a multicore Lua module, which runs  
> given functions truly in parallel, and it has future-like  
> evaluation (you get a handle to the results, and only reading h[1],  
> h[2], .. actually pend for that thread to finish).
>
> Is this what you're looking for, if so please inform me about which  
> platform you run etc.?  That is, if you wish to give the solution  
> (Lua Lanes is the name) a go. It's ...well... _almost_ ready. ((be  
> merciful, I'm moving soon..))
>
> -asko
>
>
> Graham Wakefield kirjoitti 1.3.2007 kello 0.30:
>
> > perfect, thanks.
> >
> > On Feb 28, 2007, at 10:49 AM, PA wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 28, 2007, at 19:38, Graham Wakefield wrote:
> > >
> > > > I believe so
> > > >
> > > > e.g. in Io:
> > > > http://www.iolanguage.com/darcs/Io/docs/guide.html#TOC20254
> > >
> > > http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-03/msg00602.html