Re: Is there an easier way to cancel threads???

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> I have come to the conclusion that preemptive threading was created not
> to support blocking calls but instead to support computer science
> master's degrees!

I have the exact same opinion. I envision LuaThread being
used so kids can learn how to program multithreaded
applications. Then, when they grow up, they can go
assynchronous instead. :)

> > We can use a condition variable and a counter to make sure
> > we only exit lua_close when all threads are done. Is this a
> > good solution? I think it is ok.
>
> That's what I did in my own threading library.

That's good. I am about to settle for that.

> The next time I think I need preemptive threading in Lua I will use
> someone else's better design.

I wonder when that will happen... :)

[]s,
Diego.