Speeding up thousands of iterations (Image API)

[Tomi1231 (Chilly28)]

I made a module to run arbitrary tasks in parallel

Parallel Scheduler - Parallel lua made easy and performant

/!\ - Recently (no idea when precisely), a 3 thread limit was imposed on parallel lua, on the client, for unknown reasons (for servers, they need a high amount of players per server to get more threads). The consequences of this is that the already rare use cases for parallel lua are even rarer now, and I would actually discourage the use of parallel lua, unless you benchmark your code to measure the benefits My goal with this module was to make a Worker module that encourages proper use of …

If you end up using my module, do not run each pixel as a separate task. While the module does itself group tasks together to reduce overhead, you’ll get the best performance if you do that yourself. A simple way to do that is create one task per line, so 360 tasks in your case which isn’t bad

For the use of parallel lua to be effective, each task should be a decent amount of work. In your case, this should be the case

There are also other modules like mine you can find on the dev forum