Thread pool implementation

effil / effil

Multithreading support for Lua

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Thread pool implementation #98

Open mihacooper opened 6 years ago

mihacooper commented 6 years ago

We want to create a thread pool over out threads and channels. To do that we should perform research for proper implementation and API design.

devildevilson commented 4 years ago

Here my thoughts about a thread pool implementation. The library lacks two things: thread method, that returns thread id (like thread:get_id()), and the atomic variables, which is critical to the performance wise applications, imo. Is there any chance to see them in the future? (lua 5.3) https://gist.github.com/devildevilson/bdce61d7ec66e590a31b23c2bf1b6e1c

mihacooper commented 4 years ago

Thanks for this work. I will read the poll implementation and give you feedback later. About your question:

Your notice about thread:get_id() is right. We should add it. I have created an issue #146.
Atomic variables are much more complicated. I will think about it. But btw I'm not sure about significant performance increase cause we'll have to turn atomic's into userdata with metatable and it doesn't work very fast. Another one issue #147