On 12/30/2010 3:25 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > On 31 December 2010 07:37, Brian McCallister <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/12/28 Igor Galić <[email protected]>: >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> I'm looking for some inspiration on how to make good use of >>> mod_lua. Those familiar with its documentation, might find >>> it a little bit lacking in this regard. >> >> My original aim (and what I still use mod_wombat for) is various small >> modules I don't want to be bothered using C for, but which need to run >> in a threaded MPM (making mod_python/mod_perl not viable options). > > Ignoring the fact that mod_python is now dead, there was never a > restriction on using mod_python in a threaded MPM.
Nor for properly deployed mod_perl, but either is far more heavyweight than lua. And when you multiply interpreter contexts across worker threads, both mod_perl and mod_python suffer huge bloat. I'm hoping we see much different results with lua as the 'defacto' scripting engine.
