Re: LibEvent binding to Lua? Mix w/ HelperThreads?

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> It seems to me that trying to simultaneously provide Lua stdlib
> semantics along with AIO semantics on both Windows and Linux will be a
> huge task.
>
> IOCP on windows and libevent on Linux could provide better
> performance. But it is not clear to me what you mean by "integrating
> well" with Lua's and LuaSocket's I/O functions, since they were not
> written for AIO.

I am in fact talking about replacing the way Lua does I/O on Windows and
on Unix, to make it work well with libevent on Unix and with IOCP on
Windows. If that means I would have to eliminate FILE* usage from the
Lua stdlib, I am fine with that. Probably no need to even touch Lua's C
code. It can all be done with a plugin.

As for LuaSocket, I can rewrite as much as I have to.

Why do you think this is too complicated?

As for mixing with HelperThreads, it is completely orthogonal to what I
am suggesting. Although LuaSocket is not completely thread-safe, it can
be made so with just a little work.

Regards,
Diego.