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fixylol is not online. fixylol
Joined: 14 Dec 2012
Total Posts: 7412
11 Aug 2016 04:15 PM
tons of functions added after 2013 have it in their name. what does it even mean anyways?

Number of times my opinion changed: Alot.
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nox7 is not online. nox7
Joined: 29 Aug 2008
Total Posts: 27467
11 Aug 2016 04:16 PM
Asynchronous to the current thread. Basically meaning you call the function and the code won't wait until it's finished to continue. Synchronous is the opposite.

Although they don't seem to do that...
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bosswalrus is not online. bosswalrus
Joined: 04 Jan 2013
Total Posts: 5430
11 Aug 2016 04:16 PM
maybe asynchronous
or like a sync idk

i type in async and it go to asynchronous
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JarodOfOrbiter is not online. JarodOfOrbiter
Joined: 17 Feb 2011
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11 Aug 2016 04:17 PM
Asynchronous. It doesn't matter on the Lua side, because to Lua it doesn't act as an async.
But the theory is that in C, multiple instances of that function can run at once. So if you have multiple threads or scripts in Lua, they can all use it at the same time.


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