Task.priority

Task.priority readwrite

The Task.priority property get/set the Task execution priority, a number. Tasks with high priority values will be resumed before others by the scheduler

Example


local N = 500

local finished = {}

local low = sys.Task(function()
    for i = 1, N do sleep() end
    finished[#finished+1] = "low"
end)

local high = sys.Task(function()
    for i = 1, N do sleep() end
    finished[#finished+1] = "high"
end)

low.priority  = 0   -- lower priority
high.priority = 2   -- higher priority

low()   -- start low
high()  -- start high

waitall(high, low)

print("finish order:", table.concat(finished, ", "))