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

[Ross Bencina <rossb-lists@...>]

On 6/12/2011 2:42 AM, Tim Caswell wrote:
> For both luvit and nodejs, the main loop is libuv.  I'm not sure if
> it's possible to share a loop, but it would be a neat experiment for
> someone (not me) to try.
>
> The only way I can imagine node and luvit working together is with
> multiple processes and message passing through some common IPC.

I thought Daniel's point was not to interleave nodejs and luvit event 
loops, but to be able to interleave the luvit event loop with other 
event loops (eg a Qt GUI event loop, just to give an example I'd be 
interested in). In such a case luvit would have a pump() method that 
polls the event i/o queues and then returns rather than an event loop 
that blocks for ever. I realise this isn't how to program a high 
performance web server but it would be very useful in event driven 
applications.

Also, what's the scope for using other proptocol parsers in this 
framework? Would it be easy to integrate an RTSP or OSC parser?

Thanks

Ross.