newProxy

[rayaman]

A feature that could be used to interact with objects on another thread as if they were on the main thread.

Potential usage

local multi, thread = require("multi"):init()
local THREAD, GLOBAL = require("multi.integration.threading"):init()

local queue = multi:newSystemThreadedQueue("Test"):init()

multi:newSystemThread("Test Thread", function()
    local multi, thread = require("multi"):init()
    local q = THREAD.waitFor("Test")
    local proxy = multi:newProxy(thread:newThread(function()
        while true do
            thread.sleep(1)
            print("Doing stuff...")
        end
    end))
    q:push(proxy)
    proxy:init() -- Init after sending the proxy!
    multi:mainloop()
end)

multi:newThread(function()
    local proxy = thread.hold(function()
        return queue:pop()
    end)
    proxy:Pause() -- This would pause the co-routine based thread on the system thread. If our proxy object were a Loop Object then it would stop that. I want to create an easier interface to work with threads.
end)

multi:mainloop()

If done right, we could have an easy way to interact with objects withing a thread and transfer data.

[rayaman]

Should work with all objects now, does not support certain returns, threads and connection objects cannot be returned. Due to coroutines not being allowed to be transferred between threads

[rayaman]

Custom objects you create will work too, you cannot set variables on an object. Only call functions!