[naviserver-devel] moonshadow

[Vasiljevic Z. <zv...@ar...>]

Hi there!

There is this tiny sexy little thing on www.lua.org.
Did you guys have any close(r) encounters?
Should I invest some more time/effort in that direction?
Rationale is to have simpler and lower-weight script
machine than what we have now. Also, threadingwise they
claim to be able to make a shared/perthread state that
would simplify lots of things (no need to introspect/clone
interps and such). All resulting in a smaller footprint
and faster execution.

I know we all use/love Tcl (we depend on it existentially)
but it mostly pays off being flexible and open minded.
I also know that we cannot refactor server to exclude Tcl
altogether (as we depend on the cross-platform API that
libtcl provides)...
Still... do not crucify me immediately and tag me as a
heretic! If anybody had any experience, being good or
bad I'd love to hear them.

My first experience: download 5.1.3 Lua to my powerbook
in 3 seconds, compile in 5 and I'm up and running :-)
It is really lightweight! I yet have to see whhat is missing
and what needs to be done by ourselves (most probably IO
will be missing I guess; RE's as well).

Zoran