X Threads

Supported platforms:
Available since: 2018.10

Description

The Threads plugin provides the ability to run Lua code in separate threads, taking advantage of multiple cores where available.

Example

Simple example of getting result from thread.

require "Threads"
local thread = Thread.new()
thread:setFunction(function()
  local a
  for i = 1, 10000000 do
    a += 1
  end
  return i
end)
thread:execute()
local ok = false
while not ok do
  ok = thread:getResult()
end
print("woot!")

Class

Thread