Re: local keyword in the global scope, and other things.

[askok@...]

I'm also wanting to explore this area; making Lua programs 
"parallel" in the way that it's easy for the programmer to 
use either real (separate Lua states) multitasking, and/or 
the already existing co-operative model.

All it needs is a little module, passing messages between 
the Lua states. Such do exist, but there's no established 
convention or "king of the hill" (as LuaSocket is for 
networking). I plan to throw in my own card, early next 
year, as the Andes IDE will be based upon the 
multicore/parallel execution/N Lua states idea.

The module will be extremely light, and based on 
serializing/deserializing data constructs, providing 
messages queues and so.   Already saw there are 
alternatives, but none exactly fitting this 
"processor-internal" bill.  Please prove me wrong?

-asko


On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:46:28 +0000
 Robert Raschke <rrlua@tombob.com> wrote:
> Simon Wittber wrote:
> > I'm primarily interested in exploiting multi-core 
> > architectures in a
> > high level language, like Lua. Not many dynamic, high 
> > level languages,
> > support genuine concurrency across multiple CPUs/cores. 
> > I've
> > investigated Ruby, Python, and a few Scheme dialects.
>
> You may be interested in Erlang (http://www.erlang.org/) 
> then.
>
> Robby