On 2010-06-04 at 18:21, "Akins, Brian" <brian.ak...@turner.com> wrote:
> Also, I do a good bit with Lua -- in httpd and other projects. Every time I > run profiles on this stuff, Lua is always 3 out of the top 5 cpu consumers. > And lots of it is just the language itself (all the table look-ups) and we > highly optimized our method dispatches (using apr_hash, even had a version > using gperf). Now this is probably just fine for mere mortals, but it has > always bothered me. We always meant to go back and write higher level > modules based on the "low level" Lua bindings, but we never did and we have > several non programmers who are happily writing "configs" in Lua. Did you profile httpd? I'm wondering if you had a few non-trivial hooks in lua, if it would be a significant part of the CPU consumption, or would it be swamped by the rest of the processing that always goes on for a request?
