script(2) [was: [CFT/review] new sendfile(2)]

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 1 21:34:09 UTC 2014


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In message <5404D1B8.9010006 at mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>> In message <5403B13C.60008 at freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>>
>>> Lua at the syscall level makes sense. :)
>> I doubt it.
>>
>> We're looking at high performance stuff and we don't want a silly
>> parser and string processing involved.
>>
>Would it really matter?  Lua is bytecode, [...]

I though you wanted the interpreter in the kernel.

If it's only the executor, then ... maybe... 

We'd need to do a serious audit of the lua bytecode first...

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