package.path="?/init.lua;?.lua;"..package.path -- Spawing threads using 1 method and the sThread.getCores() function! local GLOBAL,sThread=require("multi.integration.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 ]]