Re: LuaSocket 3.0? (was Re: A proposal for faster userdata type checking)

[Petite Abeille <petite_abeille@...>]

On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Diego Nehab wrote:

> > > And in the process of writing LuaSocket 3.0
> >
> > What's cooking for LuaSocket 3.0?
>
> Completely new, completely assynchronous, level triggered
> API.

Sounds promissing :)

> We are shooting for an API that behaves like the IOCP API
> from Windows, but simpler to use.  Using kqueue on BSD, IOCP
> on Windows, epoll on Linux.
>
> It will be easy to implement higher level APIs (like the
> dispatch.lua idea) on top of it. There will even be a
> synchronous API on top of it (no select(), though).

Will the new implementation be API compatible with the old one as  
defined by the LuaSocket reference manual?

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~diego/professional/luasocket/reference.html

> Hopefully will scale very well w.r.t. number of sockets.

Cheers,

PA.