Re: L2: Lua compiler in the works

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 14:32, Humberto S. N. dos Anjos wrote:

> Does anyone have any interesting candidates to spare?

Not sure how interesting it is, but here is a HTTP server, with 
supporting modules, in pure Lua:

http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTP.lua
http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/MIME.lua
http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/URL.lua

No external dependencies aside from Lua itself and tcpserver [1].


Typical HelloWorld.lua example:

local HTTP = require( 'HTTP' )

HTTP[ '/hello(%a*)' ] = function( aName ) return 'Hello ' .. ( aName or 
'world' ) end

HTTP()


Start HelloWorld.lua under tcpserver:

% tcpserver -oDHlR 0 1080 lua HelloWorld.lua


Benchmark it with ApacheBench:

% ab -n 1000 -k http://localhost:1080/hello
Requests per second:    1116.07 [#/sec] (mean)


Rinse and repeat.

Cheers,

PA.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html