Re: LuaJIT2 performance for number crunching

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Alex Bradbury <asb@asbradbury.org> writes:
>> Wouldn't argv[0] that is given to main() work for Linux?
>> I guess in the situation where luajit is .so, .dll, or .dylib that won't be
>> easy. But maybe there is a compiler specific global __argv, etc.
>
> I don't think you can guarantee argv[0] is always set appropriately
> (though it will be for anything launched from a shell). The logic is
> more complicated - you'd have to check in cwd, then through every path
> in $PATH.

... and even then, it's not guaranteed, though it will work in "typical"
usage.

-miles

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