Lua Lanes - ready ... almost :/

[askok@...]

Features are there, selftests work ("make test") but when 
running performance tests ("make perftest") the system 
abruptly fails.

Since "thousand eyes find more bugs" I'd like to ask your 
help to iron out the remaining issues. You will get your 
name on the credits! ;)

Even now, Lua Lanes is feature-wise worth a study and will 
be made public once the remaining issues are out. And - 
interesting enough - once performance figures are known.

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/askok/bin/lanes/testing.tgz

-asko

"Lanes is a lightweight, native, lazy evaluating 
interthread calling mechanism
for Lua 5.1. It allows efficient use of multicore 
processors in Lua, by passing
function calls into separate OS threads, and separate Lua 
states.

No locking of the threads is needed, only launching and 
waiting for (if needed)
a thread to get ready. Simple receive/send communications 
using native Lua
data types (bool, number, string, table) are available 
between the master and
the sub threads, but not between separate threads. That 
can be covered using
a separate communications module (s.a. DBUS).

Lua Lanes supports both Win32 and PThread threading 
models, allowing for usage
on at least the following platforms:

    - Mac OS X
    - Microsoft Windows
    - Linux
    - BSD

Distribution of Lua Lanes is intended to be done with the 
upcoming Lua Rocks
initiative."