Re: Erlang Style Cocurrency in Lua

[Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Timothy Baldridge wrote:

> > I would suggest looking into "ConcurrentLua" which starts from the  
> > same
> > basis as you seem to be. Google is your friend here :)
>
> Actually I looked into it, but unfortunately it doesn't go far enough.
> The scheduling is still co-operative. So it is possible for one
> process to hog all the processing. Secondly, as far as I can tell the
> VM is still limited to a single CPU which basically limits the
> usefulness of the implementation.

ConcurrentLua supports distributed as well as concurrent processes.  
The distributed processes are called nodes. Each node can have many  
cooperative processes. I have not looked deeply into the  
implementation, but conceptually one could install several nodes on a  
single computer to achieve the multi-core utilization you're after. It  
seems to me that ConcurrentLua is extremely close to meeting your  
requirements already.

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