Re: nginx and lua for web scripting

[Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@...>]

On 24 September 2012 22:09, Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dr. Hipp tale is cool and so on. But his web server is a very small
> native application. After a few requests, it's gonna be cached in
> memory and will not be read from disk again. On the other hand, a Lua
> web application will not have the same luck. The native launcher will
> be cached in memory, but the Lua code has to be read from disk,
> parsed, compiled and run every time the process starts anew.
>

Not everything has to be compared in terms of CGI mentality though.
Application servers have code caching and operating systems have file
caching, which mitigate most of those problems.