Re: Suggestion: upvalues to C hook functions

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Thanks, er... yes. :)

But you didn't indicate whether that would have chances of "getting  
through"..  It's not a real big deal, just a slow-down when  
cancellable Lua Lanes are being used. Thanks for considering.


Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo kirjoitti 18.4.2007 kello 16:04:

> > The current API does not allow giving upvalues to the hook function
> > from C API. This would be required in multithreading scenarios where
> > several Lua states may be using the same lua_Hook function.
>
> What you want is a closure not upvalues. Hook functions are not Lua
> functions and so cannot have upvalues. So a better and equivalent API
> would be to sethook to receive a void* just like reader functions.