On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Friesen <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
> That all being said. I still think the original rationale for picking > lua (more sandboxing controls including execution limits based on steps > in lua rather than varying execution time) is still valid. > It's not, actually. It may have been at the time. But v8 now has both time and memory limits and fine-grained counters for various events with callbacks and all sorts of crazy sandbox-y things. See https://github.com/phpv8/v8js/blob/master/v8js_timer.cc (although I think the latest v8 actually has even more direct ways of enforcing these limits.) --scott, who'd like to get some more work done on Scribunto/JS at some point. -- (http://cscott.net) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
