Re: [ANN] Luvit - Lua + UV + Jit = NodeJS re-implemented in Lua

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Fabien <fleutot+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
> Coroutines. Look at any non-trivial node.js program, it's an awful mess of
> nested callbacks; very hard to read, impossible to maintain. Coroutines fix
> that, and that's a killer feature by itself.

this.

callbacks-driven pseudomultitasking isn't anything new; it was the
only way to get good responsiveness in classic MacOS. it was used only
for slow I/O for a reason: it's _ugly_

current node.js proponents say that it's not so bad, or that you only
have to shift your reasoning process.  still, there are lots of people
(and growing) that find it unmaintable for anything non-trivial.

coroutines do fix that; up to a point.  as the Copas (and Xavante)
experience teach us, you have to be careful not to stall too long
without I/O (to give a chance to the scheduler to yield).  besides
that, it's just as if you had multiprocessing without the overhead.

BTW, how would Luvit compare with Xavante with a limited number of
connections?  i guess that over a hundred or so, any event-driven
scheme surpasses the select()-based Copas, but below that, it's not so
certain.

There are also some event-library bindings, and i thing some of them
included a Copas replacement that allowed you to run Xavante.... how's
luvit different from that?

-- 
Javier