gmod_effil

Multithreading library for gmod and starfall using effil.

It may have better performance than lanes.

Installation

Prebuilt binaries can be found in tab Actions above.

Put dll files into garrysmod/lua/bin and you are good to go.

To enable starfall support, put starfall/effil.lua into garrysmod/lua/addons/StarfallEx/lua/starfall/libs_sh.

Example

require("effil")

local f = effil.thread(function(n) return n * 2 end)

local handle = f(15)
local handle2 = f(30)

print(handle:get(), handle2:get())

Effil documentation can be found in here.

Build

Prerequisites

premake5 and an available build tool (such as Visual Studio 2022 or gcc with make).

Steps

1. Clone the repository and the submodules recursively.

2. Apply the patch 0001-fix-luaL_loadbufferx-redefinition.patch to effil/libs/sol.

3. Run premake5 to configure.

4. Build.

Starfall Permissions

Default settings are whitelisted users only.

See starfall/effil.lua for more information.