Thread

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Available since: 2018.10

Description

Main Thread class that concurrent threads are created with and managed by. From Threads plugin.

Methods Thread.new Creates a new thread object. Thread:setFunction Sets Lua function that thread will execute. Thread:execute Starts/executes our thread Thread:resume Resumes a thread that has been yielded. Thread.yield Pauses executions of thread (only a valid call inside thread function). Thread:status Returns current status of the thread. Thread:getNumLogicalCores Returns number of logical cores on host machine. Thread:requestTermination Sets a flag to terminate thread. Thread.sendData Sends data for retrieval by main thread (only a valid call inside thread function). Thread:fetchData Returns any data sent by thread sendData call. Thread:getResults Get any results from thread.

Events none Constants none