RE: LuaJIT: maturity

["Manish Jain" <manish.jain@...>]

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Subject: Re: LuaJIT: maturity

2008/7/23 Manish Jain <manish.jain@globallogic.com>:
> What is the current (1.1.4) maturity level of LuaJIT. Is it
> alpha/beta/production quality?
>
> We are planning to use it in telecom (VoIP) switch.
>
> We have multithreading environment on multiprocessor platform. So, we
should
> be able to
>
> call same lua function from multiple threads in parallel. I mentioned
this
> concern because of
>
> thread - http://lua-users.lua.org/lists/lua-l/2006-04/msg00216.html

>> Hey, that's one of my very first posts on the Lua list :-)

>> The short answer is you can't get LuaThread and LuaJIT work together
>> without some work, because both modify the Lua sources and they are
>> not using a common framework to do so.

>> But do you really need LuaThread ? Keep in mind that with LuaThread,
>> only a single os thread will be executing Lua code at any given time.
>> It's main purpose (I think) is to run semi-autonomous (ie. not
>> accessing the Lua state too often) worker threads written in C.

>> Without LuaThread you can have several independent Lua states, even
>> many of them, and in that case LuaJIT will work just as expected. You
>> will have to use special mechanisms to share data between the Lua
>> states, and there are many libs around there doing that, the authors
>> of the active ones will probably answer this topic soon.

We are not using LuaThread. We are calling Lua functions from C code.
And there will be multiple threads in C code those will be calling same
lua function in parallel.