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-- Copyright (c) 2011 by Ross Anderson <ross_j_anderson@yahoo.com>
--
-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-- of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-- in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-- to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-- copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-- furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
--
-- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
-- all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
--
-- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-- IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-- AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-- LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-- OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
-- THE SOFTWARE.
-- Sub-thread processing example in Lua using llthreads - 1,000 quick sub-thread execution
-- luajit sub_threads.lua
-- level 0 string literal enclosure [[ ]] of child execution code
local thread_code = function(num_threads, ...)
print("CHILD: received from ROOT params:", num_threads, ...)
local llthreads = require"llthreads.ex" -- need to re-declare this under this scope
local t = {} -- thread storage table
-- create a new child sub-thread execution code - it requires level 1 literal string [=[ ]=] enclosures, level 2 would be [==[ ]==]
local executed_child_code = function(...)
return "Hello from child sub-thread, new input params:", ...
end
-- create 1000 sub-threads - which creates an incremental 30% / 20% utilization spike on the two AMD cpu cores
print("CHILD: Create sub threads:", num_threads)
for i=1,num_threads do
-- create child sub-thread with code to execute and the input parmeters
local thread = llthreads.new(executed_child_code , "number:", 1000 + i, "nil:", nil, "bool:", true)
assert(thread:start()) -- start new child sub-thread
table.insert(t, thread) -- append the thread at the end of the thread table
end
-- wait (block) for all child sub-threads to complete before returning to ROOT
while true do
-- always wait on the first element, since order is not important
print("CHILD: sub-thread returned: ", t[1]:join())
table.remove(t,1) -- always remove the first element
if (#t == 0) then break end
end
return ... -- return the parents' input params back to the root
end
local llthreads = require"llthreads.ex"
local num_threads = tonumber(arg[1] or 1000)
-- create child thread.
local thread = llthreads.new(thread_code, num_threads, "number:", 1000, "nil:", nil, "bool:", true)
-- start joinable child thread.
assert(thread:start())
-- wait for all child and child sub-threads to finish
print("ROOT: child returned: ", thread:join())
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