svn commit: r280677 - projects/lua-bootloader/sys/contrib/lua/src

[Adrian Chadd]

On 26 March 2015 at 10:27, Wojciech A. Koszek <wkoszek at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 07:28:32AM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> Author: rpaulo
>> Date: Thu Mar 26 07:28:32 2015
>> New Revision: 280677
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/280677
>>
>> Log:
>>   Port lua to libstand.
>>
>>
>
> Rui,
>
> I appreciate you taking care of this project.
>
> Would we be willing to consider placing Lua in src/sys/... I originally
> requested that during GSOC, but it turned out we run out of time for this.
>
> Motivation: This would open up some new fronts for us.

Sure, if someone comes up with a non-terrible way of actually
interfacing lua in as a kernel execution context.

Does lua still have that big-interpreter-lock? The last time I looked
at using lua in something threaded it ended up being too terrible to
use.



-adrian