Re: Module for easy multithreading

[Илья Удалов <udalovilia@...>]

Hi Joshua!

Basically Effil brings inter threads shares tables.

You to use nested  tables over threads (even recursively):

local effil = require "effil"

local t = effil.table {1, "I am string"}

local res = effil.thread(

function(t)

    t.self = t

end)(t):get()

print(t.self.self.self.self[2])

Also with metatables:

local greeting = effil.table()

effil.setmetatable(greeting, { __call = function(t, name)

    print("Hi " .. name)

end })

effil.thread(function (greeting)

    greeting("Lua mailing list")

end)(greeting):wait()

Effil have linda like objects with almost same API - channels. It also provides operations with timeouts.

Effil can cancel thread like lanes. But currently it does not have API for change thread priority https://github.com/effil/effil/issues/77. 

Effil doesn't have locks and times as separate API. Locks seems to be dangerous in multithreading-cancelable environment. Very easy make deadlock. But if you really need them - you can implement locks and timers over effil.channel. 

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Ilia

29 сент. 2017 г., в 16:13, Илья Удалов <udalovilia@gmail.com> написал(а):

Hi,

Take a look at new gorgeous lua module for multithreading - Effil.

Main feature are:

- thread safe tables.

- threads can be paused/resumed and canceled.

- FIFO channels.

Install it from  luarocks: luarocks install effil

Sources hosted on GitHub https://github.com/effil/effil

Blog post about Effil: https://mihacooper.github.io/effil/lua/2017/09/28/effil/

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Ilia and Miha