From 89d9c98af1ac352ba4d49d660e61b0853d6e1a86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Drahoš <drahosp@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 03:22:32 +0200
Subject: Import to git

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+Lua Lanes
+---------
+
+Lanes is a lightweight, native, lazy evaluating multithreading library for 
+Lua 5.1. It allows efficient use of multicore processors in Lua, by passing
+function calls into separate OS threads, and separate Lua states.
+
+No locking of the threads is needed, only launching and waiting for (with an
+optional timeout) a thread to get ready. Efficient communications between the
+running threads are possible either using message passing or shared state 
+models. Values passed can be anything but coroutines (see detailed limitations
+in the manual).
+
+Lua Lanes has been optimized for performance, and provides around 50-60%
+speed increase when running heavily threaded applications on dual core
+processors (compared to running a non-threaded plain Lua implementation). 
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