Re: [ANN] llvm-lua 1.0

["Robert G. Jakabosky" <bobby@...>]

On Tuesday 02, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> >> 2. We have many Lua states created and used in many threads (one state
> >> is used by a single thread at a time). Would this work with llvm-lua?
> >
> > Not the current release.  The LLVMCompiler class is not thread-safe and
> > one instance of that class is stored in a global variable.
>
> This is the show stopper then.

I hope you don't mind trying out the latest revision of llvm-lua from the 
subversion repository.  Just committed a thread-safe version.  Now 
each "lua_State" instance has it's own LLVMCompiler & LLVM JIT engine 
instance.

Also llvm-lua can now be easily compiled with C++ exception support (i.e. with 
try/catch instead of setjmp/longjmp).
just use this command to compile:
make linux LUA_CPP_SUPPORT=1

The new code passes all my test scripts.  I haven't tried catching the Lua 
generated errors in C++ code that wraps/calls Lua code, but pcall can catch 
exceptions generated by error().

> > Right now that one instance of LLVMCompiler is shared by all lua_States,
> > I might move the global variable to a member variable of 'lua_State' .  A
> > lock on that shared instance might still be the best option.  I will look
> > into this for the next release.
>
> Thanks. I will eagerly wait for thread-safe llvm-lua. Can you give any
> clues on when it could be released?

If you can test the lastest code to help verify that these new feature work, 
then I will roll a new release.

-- 
Robert G. Jakabosky