Re: another try at multithreading

[Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva <asandroq@...>]

Hallo,

Doug Currie wrote:
> Could an in-memory SQLite database be used to efficiently provide shared 
> Lua-semantics tables? I have not benchmarked (or coded!) this, so it is 
> just a fantasy. SQLite now provides shared cache, optional read 
> non-committed transactions for high levels of concurrency in a single 
> address space. This probably does not scale particularly well to 
> networked clusters (though it would work).

     Why not try it with Javier's lock-free hash tables? Use it as a 
light userdata first, add some C primitives callable from Lua, and use 
it from different Lua states.

-alex
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