Added some new methods (1.7.6)

More examples
small tweaks
added/modified examples
typos as always
minor bug fixes
some new features, read readme for them

examples/lanes resource loading/resourceloading.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+local GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.intergration.lanesManager").init()
+require("proAudioRt") -- an audio library
+-- The hosting site with precompiled binaries is down, but here is a link to a archive
+-- https://web.archive.org/web/20160907180559/http://viremo.eludi.net:80/proteaAudio/proteaaudiolua.html documentation and downloads are availiable... I also have saved copies just in case :D
+-- Music by: myuuji
+-- His youtube channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ
+proAudio.create()
+multi:newThread("test",function()
+	-- simple playlist
+	sThread.waitFor("song")
+	print("Playing song 1!")
+	proAudio.soundPlay(GLOBAL["song"])
+	sThread.waitFor("song2")
+	thread.hold(function() sThread.sleep(.001) return proAudio.soundActive()==0 end)
+	print("Playing song 2!")
+	proAudio.soundPlay(GLOBAL["song2"])
+	sThread.waitFor("song3")
+	thread.hold(function() sThread.sleep(.001) return proAudio.soundActive()==0 end)
+	print("Playing song 3!")
+	proAudio.soundPlay(GLOBAL["song3"])
+end)
+-- loading the audio in another thread is way faster! So lets do that
+multi:newSystemThread("test1",function() -- spawns a thread in another lua process
+	require("proAudioRt")
+	GLOBAL["song"]=proAudio.sampleFromFile("test.ogg",1,1)
+	print("Loaded song 1!")
+	GLOBAL["song2"]=proAudio.sampleFromFile("test2.ogg",1,1)
+	print("Loaded song 2!")
+	GLOBAL["song3"]=proAudio.sampleFromFile("test3.ogg",1,1)
+	print("Loaded song 3!")
+end)
+multi:mainloop()

examples/lanesintergratetest.lua

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package.path="?/init.lua;?.lua;"..package.path
 local GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.intergration.lanesManager").init()
-require("multi.threading")
 multi:newAlarm(2):OnRing(function(self)
 	GLOBAL["NumOfCores"]=sThread.getCores()
 end)

examples/lanesintergratetest2.lua

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package.path="?/init.lua;?.lua;"..package.path
-local GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.intergration.lanesManager").init()
-require("multi.threading") -- obvious copy/paste below with no attempt to clean it up :P
+local GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.intergration.lanesManager").init() -- loads the lanesManager and includes the entire multi library
 local function comma_value(amount)
 	local formatted = amount
 	while true do
@@ -40,8 +39,6 @@ multi:newSystemThread("test6",function() -- spawns a thread in another lua proce
 	require("multi.all") -- now you can do all of your coding with the multi library! You could even spawn more threads from here with the intergration. You would need to require the interaction again though
 	multi:benchMark(sThread.waitFor("Bench"),nil,"Thread 6"):OnBench(function(self,c) GLOBAL["T6"]=c multi:Stop() end)
 	multi:mainloop()
-end)
-multi:newSystemThread("Combiner",function() -- spawns a thread in another lua process
 	print("Bench: ",comma_value(tostring(sThread.waitFor("T1")+sThread.waitFor("T2")+sThread.waitFor("T3")+sThread.waitFor("T4")+sThread.waitFor("T5")+sThread.waitFor("T6"))))
 	GLOBAL["DONE"]=true
 end)
@@ -58,5 +55,5 @@ multi:newThread("test0",function()
 		end
 	end
 end)
-GLOBAL["Bench"]=10
+GLOBAL["Bench"]=60
 multi:mainloop()

examples/lanesintergratetest3.lua

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package.path="?/init.lua;?.lua;"..package.path -- Spawing threads using 1 method and the sThread.getCores() function!
+local GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.intergration.lanesManager").init() -- loads the lanesManager and includes the entire multi library
+local function comma_value(amount)
+	local formatted = amount
+	while true do
+		formatted, k = string.gsub(formatted, "^(-?%d+)(%d%d%d)", '%1,%2')
+		if (k==0) then
+			break
+		end
+	end
+	return formatted
+end
+GLOBAL["BENCHCOUNT"],GLOBAL["CNUM"],GLOBAL["DONE"]=0,0,0
+cores=sThread.getCores()
+function benchmark() -- our single function that will be used across a bunch of threads
+	require("multi.all") -- get the library
+	local n=GLOBAL["CNUM"]; GLOBAL["CNUM"]=n+1 -- do some math so we can identify which thread is which
+	multi:benchMark(sThread.waitFor("BENCH"),nil,"Thread "..n+1):OnBench(function(self,c) GLOBAL["BENCHCOUNT"]=GLOBAL["BENCHCOUNT"]+c; GLOBAL["DONE"]=GLOBAL["DONE"]+1; multi:Stop() end)
+	-- ^ do the bench mark and add to the BENCHCOUNT GLOBAL value, then increment the DONE Value
+	multi:mainloop()
+end
+for i=1,cores do -- loop based on the number of cores you have
+	multi:newSystemThread("test"..i,benchmark) -- create a system thread based on the benchmark
+end
+multi:newThread("test0",function()
+	while true do
+		thread.skip(1)
+		sThread.sleep(.001)
+		if GLOBAL["DONE"]==cores then
+			print(comma_value(tostring(GLOBAL["BENCHCOUNT"])))
+			os.exit()
+		end
+	end
+end)
+GLOBAL["BENCH"]=10
+print("Platform is: ",multi:getPlatform()) -- returns love2d or lanes depending on which platform you are using... If I add more intergrations then this method will be updated! corona sdk may see this library in the future...
+multi:mainloop()
+--[[ Output on my machine! I am using luajit and have 6 cores on my computer. Your numbers will vary, but it should look something like this
+Intergrated Lanes!
+Platform is: 	lanes
+Thread 1 62442125 Steps in 10 second(s)!
+Thread 2 61379095 Steps in 10 second(s)!
+Thread 3 62772502 Steps in 10 second(s)!
+Thread 4 62740684 Steps in 10 second(s)!
+Thread 5 60926715 Steps in 10 second(s)!
+Thread 6 61793175 Steps in 10 second(s)!
+372,054,296
+]]

examples/love2d Threading Example/main.lua

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require("core.Library")
-require("multi.compat.love2d") -- allows for multitasking and binds my libraies to the love2d engine that i am using
-GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.intergration.loveManager").init() -- load the love2d version of the lanesManager
+GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.intergration.loveManager").init() -- load the love2d version of the lanesManager and requires the entire multi library
 --IMPORTANT
 -- Do not make the above local, this is the one difference that the lanesManager does not have
 -- If these are local the functions will have the upvalues put into them that do not exist on the threaded side

examples/love2d Threading Example/multi/init.lua

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ function print(...)
 	end
 end
 multi = {}
-multi.Version={1,7,5}
+multi.Version={1,7,6}
 multi.stage='stable'
 multi.__index = multi
 multi.Mainloop={}
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ multi.jobUS=2
 multi.clock=os.clock
 multi.time=os.time
 multi.LinkedPath=multi
-mulit.isRunning=false
+multi.isRunning=false
 multi.queuefinal=function(self)
 	self:Destroy()
 	if self.Parent.Mainloop[#self.Parent.Mainloop] then
@@ -239,6 +239,15 @@ end
 function multi:getVersion()
 	return multi.Version[1].."."..multi.Version[2].."."..multi.Version[3]
 end
+function multi:getPlatform()
+	if love then
+		if love.thread then
+			return "love2d"
+		end
+	else
+		return "lanes"
+	end
+end
 --Processor
 function multi:getError()
 	if self.error then
@@ -953,8 +962,8 @@ function multi:newCondition(func)
 end
 multi.NewCondition=multi.newCondition
 function multi:mainloop()
-	if not mulit.isRunning then
-		mulit.isRunning=true
+	if not multi.isRunning then
+		multi.isRunning=true
 		for i=1,#self.Tasks do
 			self.Tasks[i](self)
 		end
@@ -1020,6 +1029,9 @@ function multi:newEvent(task)
 			end
 		end
 	end
+	function c:SetTask(func)
+		self.Task=func
+	end
 	function c:OnEvent(func)
 		table.insert(self.func,func)
 	end

examples/love2d Threading Example/multi/intergration/lanesManager.lua

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ end
 -- Step 1 get lanes
 lanes=require("lanes").configure()
 package.path="lua/?/init.lua;lua/?.lua;"..package.path
-require("multi.updater") -- get it all and have it on all lanes
+require("multi.all") -- get it all and have it on all lanes
 local multi=multi
 -- Step 2 set up the linda objects
 local __GlobalLinda = lanes.linda() -- handles global stuff

examples/love2d Threading Example/multi/intergration/loveManager.lua

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+require("multi.compat.love2d")
 multi.intergration={}
 multi.intergration.love2d={}
 multi.intergration.love2d.ThreadBase=[[
@@ -326,6 +327,7 @@ updater:OnUpdate(function(self)
 		data=multi.intergration.love2d.mainChannel:pop()
 	end
 end)
+print("Intergrated Love2d!")
 return {
 	init=function(t)
 		if t then