Re: Parallel processes: multi-core, same CPU?

H J <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:12:22 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for your suggestions.
AFAIK there are two candidates for parallel processing: `lanes` and (the 
newer) `effil`; they look similar to me but I have only experience with 
`effil`. Has anyone experience with both, and can share their relative pros 
and cons?
-- Henk


On Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 4:30:04 PM UTC-6 Norman Ramsey wrote:

> > > This is a known limitation with lua - you can't run two lua threads 
> (under
> > > the same lua_State) in parallel...
> > 
> > Shameless plug: one option is https://github.com/LuaLanes/lanes (there 
> are
> > others, but they can publicize themselves :-)).
>
> I have used Lua Lanes and gotten excellent speedups.
>
>
> Norman
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lua-l" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/lua-l/e047abe1-fea7-4013-82c1-9e4889e7d2fdn%40googlegroups.com.