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IPC Package Reference Manual

  • ipc.spawn a more modern replacement to Lua's io.popen function.
  • ipc.map maps a Lua function onto a set of threads.
  • ipc.mutex provides utilies for locking resources and creating synchronization barriers.
  • ipc.workqueue allows the main thread to communicate with a set of worker threads.
  • ipc.channel allows thread to communicate with one another via messaging-passing.
  • ipc.sharedtable provides a table that can be shared between threads.
  • ipc.marshal serializes objects into a compact userdata instance.
  • ipc.BackgroundTask provides a simple, pollable interface to a single Lua function run in the background.
  • ipc.BackgroundTaskPool provides a simple, pollable interface to a set of arbitrary Lua functions run in the background.