Re: Random crashed with threaded application

[kamicc olo <kamicc@...>]

I guess it would be easier and would make more sense building some
message mechanism on C side to communicate between those separate
threads and Lua VMs. Then in more or less distant future You wouldn't
have to do a total rework to move to separate processes, separate CPUs
or even separate REAL machines....

On 6/21/13, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> So does the Lua VM store some static variables or so? Why it's not
>> supported? My naive thoughts let me understand that if I use the state
>> and leave it just like when I found it, it should continue working.
>
> The Lua VM does not use static variables but its data structures are not
> thread-safe. For instance, two threads passing a string to the Lua VM
> could mess with the string hash table.
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