Re: Re: Problem with concurrency, threads, Lua states and maybe GC?

["Matt 'Matic' Page (Lua)" <lua@...>]

Thanks for the quick response :-)
> (This makes tight loops that do not create
> objects "atomic", however.)
Can you elaborate? Could these changes affect the way my Lua & OS 
threads work together? (i.e. is there anything I need to be aware of, or 
change, when migrating up to 5.2)
Thanks!
Matt

On 22/07/28164 20:59, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Could you please confirm that the Lua 5.2.0 work 3 includes the fix
> > to this GC-in-another-thread-while-jump issue?
> >      
> I moved the threadyield call to points where the GC may be called;
> these points can trigger finalizers and therefore Lua must be ready to
> all kinds of changes there. (This makes tight loops that do not create
> objects "atomic", however.)
>
> -- Roberto
>
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