Method NewThread

state.go:1614–1625

NewThread returns a new LState that shares with the original state all global objects. If the original state has context.Context, the new state has a new child context of the original state and this function returns its cancel function.

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// NewThread returns a new LState that shares with the original state all global objects.
// If the original state has context.Context, the new state has a new child context of the original state and this function returns its cancel function.
func (ls *LState) NewThread() (*LState, context.CancelFunc) {
	thread := newLState(ls.Options)
	thread.G = ls.G
	thread.Env = ls.Env
	var f context.CancelFunc = nil
	if ls.ctx != nil {
		thread.mainLoop = mainLoopWithContext
		thread.ctx, f = context.WithCancel(ls.ctx)
		thread.ctxCancelFn = f
	}
	return thread, f
}

func (ls *LState) NewFunctionFromProto(proto *FunctionProto) *LFunction {
	return newLFunctionL(proto, ls.Env, int(proto.NumUpvalues))