On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:08, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:07 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote:
<snip>
> > What is your opinion of microperl? Would in suffice for the proposed
> > rewrite?
>
> My vote probably dont count since i havent contributed with any code,
> anyway...
>
> I just compiled microperl on my gento/hardened/uclibc chroot. It
> compiled on first try, but the file was 1155980 (1254803 before strip).
>
> I have also the full perl but its huge so its never used. If you intend
> to continue be The firewall for embedded I'd suggest avoiding
> perl/python/ruby/php.
>
> We had a long debate some time ago on alpinelinux list what to do with
> webconf since we wanted to replace shell with some kind of high level
> language. We ended with lua, which definitively gives the most for the
> bucks.
>
> As a comparation to microperl, lua is 160kb.
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=all〈=lua&lang2=perl
Natanael,
Lua looks like a definite win in the embedded space. However, shorewall
has a wider user base than that. Ubiquitous linux language support is
only available for C, C++, Perl, and Python (ref. LSB 3.2).
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB_Roadmap
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LsbPerl
In addition, it looks like quite a few embedded distributions are making
microperl packages available.
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