What does Parallel Luau mean?

[broken fern]

i want to understand how to use actor but idk what is parallel luau and i can't understand https://create.roblox.com/docs/ko-kr/scripting/multithreading

[hushed zephyr]

sure

[slate sphinx]

Parallel just means doing multiple things at once

For example

Normal Lua runs code line by line

And waits for the previous line to finish

Parallel Lua just means running separate "Threads" at the same time

You can think of threads like independent code pieces

For example, every script is it's own thread. This means that all scripts run at the same time, but inside the scripts code is executed in serial( line by line, waiting for last line to finish)

The simplest example of parallel Luau would be something like this

task.spawn(function() -- create a new thread for the function to run in
T
task.wait(3)
print("parallel")
end)
print("serial") -- will print immediately without waiting for the above function to run

[slate sphinx]

Dawg I spent like 10 minutes writing that just for you to ignore me 😭

[broken fern]

Ohh

Thx!! I understanded!!!