On 2007.08.07, Bas Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always shake my head when this "lets implement PHP/Ruby/TechDuJour > in AOLserver, that will make it popular" comes up. First of all > everyone seems to find that only Tcl is any good a threading, so you > can't make other languages fit properly.
Two thoughts I've been giving a lot of time to, lately: 1) JavaScript: the SpiderMonkey JS engine is thread-safe and I've been integrating it into AOLserver (see: nsjsapi). John Resig has started a small JS library that makes running some client-side JS on the server-side, which I'm hoping to take advantage of. My rationale here is that JS is probably the single web scripting language that is known by the most number of people; regardless of which web stack you use, you're also going to have to use JavaScript. Why not just build the entire web stack with JavaScript, on the client and server side? 2) Lua: Lua seems like the natural successor to Tcl--small, lightweight, simple syntax, and *embeddable*. (FWIW, I don't like Lua's syntax, but who cares.) The folks at Adobe are using it seriously (Adobe Lightroom), game developers are using it (World of Warcraft), etc. Lua's embeddability in threaded applications comes in two flavors: separate Lua "States" (analogus to Tcl's "interp"), or new child states which have a shared parent global state (serialized through a global lock). The latter is probably close to what we'd ultimately want for AOLserver in a "Tcl_CloneInterp" that had shared global state with copy-on-write (COW) and/or global lock semantics. > What makes AOLserver AOLserver is the Tcl API; libraries, ns_db and > nsv are what makes it better than anything available on Apache. On Apache, lacking nsv's (and nv's), folks use memcache. Naturally, having nsv's "out of the box" instead of having to figure out and set up memcache makes things simpler. (Yes, memcache is ultimately a whole lot more powerful than AOLserver's nsv's--I know this.) -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
