Just for clarity, by functions I mean in-built rainerscript functions,
not user defined functions.

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:49 AM, singh.janmejay
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think a rich set of functions make it as complex as a
> full-blown programming language. Majority of richness of a real
> programming language comes from compositions over user-built
> constructs. Functions are just allowing for richer manipulation of
> control-flow and log-content, but not composition of user-created
> constructs (say structs, objects and methods, closures etc).
>
> I personally feel things like include or hasItem should be available
> as functions (external module sounds like an overkill for this). But
> for xml-parsing, a separate module makes total sense.
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:42 AM, singh.janmejay
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> At the risk of digressing a bit, in some benchmarks I did in 2013
>> luajit came out to be 2x to 4x faster, but its nowhere close to as
>> pluggable, doesn't give very clean hookup points etc.
>> If ever, i'd bet on Lua.
>>
>> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Marcus Rueckert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 2015-05-22 21:58:30 +0200, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>>>> Use cases?
>>>> (Maintenance) effort required?
>>>
>>> 10 years is quite some time. especially luajit seems to kick ass in the
>>> speed department. look at Snabb Switch e.g. also the powerdns team
>>> reported some nice numbers for their lua based things
>>> (pdns,pdns-recursor,dnsdist). and nice speedups when they started
>>> testing with luajit.
>>>
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