Is Lua really limited?

[ShayF2]

Who here has had a limitation with lua? A point where they wanted to do something and they couldn't with lua. Respond your limits, see how far you can really go.

[spenkbang]

A simple sleep() function that can accurately do less than 50ms  (cant rely on counting frames or anything like that)

I think something could be rigged up with  coroutines and os.clock(), but I cant think of a way to condense it to where I just have to call the function once

[ShayF2]

@spenkbang

local seconds = 0

local timer = setTimer(function() seconds = seconds + 1 end, 1000, 0)

function stopCount()
	killTimer(timer)
	return seconds
end

or you can try a loop function

local seconds = 0

function startCount()
	seconds = seconds + 1
	return continue()
end

function continue()
	seconds = seconds + 1
	return startCount()
end

function stopCount()
	continue = function() end
	return seconds
end

Which can go less than 50 ms, this should be capable of getting close to 1ms

Edited February 16, 2019 by ShayF