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author | Benoit Germain <bnt.germain@gmail.com> | 2011-11-05 17:31:02 +0100 |
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committer | Benoit Germain <bnt.germain@gmail.com> | 2011-11-05 17:31:02 +0100 |
commit | 053f7cff3c95acb915e6babfd306971f11bb7986 (patch) | |
tree | ee38c60b1119d34eb96aea1105ef033e851d266e /ABOUT | |
parent | 717eadee9c3644fabb32c7ee59949f2846143690 (diff) | |
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* process exit change: close everything at GC when main state closes, not when atexit() handlers are processed
* Lua 5.2-style module:
* module() is no longer used to implement lanes.lua
* a global "lanes" variable is no longer created when the module is required
* the Lanes module table is returned instead
* Lanes must be initialized before used:
* the first occurence of 'require "lanes"' produces a minimal interface that only contains a configure() function
* the remainder of the interface is made available once this function is called
* subsequent calls to configure() do nothing
* configure() controls the number of keeper states and the startup of timers
* LuaJIT 2 compatibility
* non-Lua functions are no longer copied by creating a C closure from a C pointer, but through 2-way lookup tables
* this means that if a lane function body pulls non-Lua functions, the lane generator description must contain the list of libraries and modules that exports them
* introduces a change in configuration .globals management: contents are copied *after* std libs are loaded
* new .required configuration entry to list modules that must be require()'ed before lane body is transferred
* lane:cancel() wakes up waiting lindas like what is done at lane shutdown
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@@ -14,4 +14,6 @@ in the manual). | |||
14 | 14 | ||
15 | Lua Lanes has been optimized for performance, and provides around 50-60% | 15 | Lua Lanes has been optimized for performance, and provides around 50-60% |
16 | speed increase when running heavily threaded applications on dual core | 16 | speed increase when running heavily threaded applications on dual core |
17 | processors (compared to running a non-threaded plain Lua implementation). | 17 | processors (compared to running a non-threaded plain Lua implementation). |
18 | |||
19 | Starting with version 3.0, Lanes is compatible with LuaJIT 2. \ No newline at end of file | ||