multithreading love with love.thread

[Jasoco]

Maybe if you added a thread stopping code to a love.run() function of your own that would be called when you quit, it would end better instead of crashing. How exactly would you go about stopping any running threads in the middle of their run? Apparently it's not thread:stop().

Try Thread:kill() in love.quit()

Nope. That just caused it to freeze with the colorful spinning wheel. Rather than quitting and crashing.

[bartbes]

Please don't call kill, didn't I put a warning on the wiki?!
Anyway, I don't think this is a bug with threading though, what happens when you use a really basic thread, or when you put the thread code in the main thread?

[Jasoco]

Well, I did notice if I quit right after the first image, but before the second one, it doesn't crash. So maybe it has something to do with calling it more than once?

[TechnoCat]

I updated the original post to not have dumb loops in it. Also, you can quit the thread with 'q'.

[saiko-chriskun]

what are the advantages of love.thread over lua's built-in coroutines?

[TechnoCat]

what are the advantages of love.thread over lua's built-in coroutines?

Coroutines are not truly threads. It is my understanding coroutines in Lua will only execute one thread at a time.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/CoroutinesTutorial

Coroutines in Lua are not operating system threads or processes. Coroutines are blocks of Lua code which are created within Lua, and have their own flow of control like threads. Only one coroutine ever runs at a time, and it runs until it activates another coroutine, or yields (returns to the coroutine that invoked it).

[Mud]

what are the advantages of love.thread over lua's built-in coroutines?

Coroutines don't allow concurrent execution. If you resume a coroutine, the coroutine has to yield before control returns to the caller. You can do cooperative multitasking by cycling through coroutines and resuming them (each coroutine decides how much time it gets, and can potentially never yield controller), whereas threads allow preemptive multitasking (the task scheduler decides how much time a thread gets).

[TechnoCat]

How would I pass a luasocket connection to a thread? EDIT: https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/issue/2 ... assing-non

Also, can threads create threads? EDIT: require love.filesystem first.

[Taehl]

I don't think you can pass connections to threads because, unless I'm mistaken, you can only pass strings and I don't think you can serialize a connection.

[slime]

You can send and received pretty much anything (including userdata) except tables, AFAIK.