Re: futures in lua?

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

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