Re: Speed of C-to-Lua calls

[Adrian Perez <moebius.lists@...>]

El Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:25:21 -0500
"Evan DeMond" <evan.demond@gmail.com> escribió:

> It'd be something like:
> * One call for parsing
> * One to three calls or so to fetch parsed message pieces as needed
> (keeps code simple)
> * Possibly an additional call for user scripting

I am pretty sure you could even do far more C-to-Lua calls without
noticing appreciable slowdown. In fact I am sure you could code your
IRC client entirely in Lua using Diego Nehab's luasocket =)

Cheers,

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