Re: [UNSURE]Re: [ANN] lua-MessagePack 0.1.0

[François Perrad <francois.perrad@...>]

2012/11/12 Matthieu Tourne <matthieu.tourne@gmail.com>:
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> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us>
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>> >> luajit-msgpack-pure seems on par with lua-MessagePack, except for some
>> >> bad
>> >> edge cases (iary10000, dary1000)
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>> > I did some experiments with FFI (see the branch 'ffi'
>> > http://github.com/fperrad/lua-MessagePack/tree/ffi),
>> > but on my hardware, I don't see improvement.
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>> Yes, François has shown me his code early and it turns out some
>> of my assumptions were wrong, including the fact that encoding
>> floating point numbers in pure Lua code is faster than using
>> a C cast with the FFI.
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>> As far as I am concerned this library almost makes
>> luajit-msgpack-pure redundant. Also, I think there are too
>> many MessagePack implementations out there. I would like
>> to see a "standardization" around Antirez's and François'
>> implementations. If they could have compatible APIs it would
>> be even better.
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>> If you need background on the mess MessagePack in Lua is,
>> read https://gist.github.com/2971290 ;) We have to move away
>> from this.
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> Thanks for the clarification!
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> I'd potentially be interested to use lua-msgpack-native, if it's faster than
> lua-cmgspack.
> But I don't use luvit, and I'm really not familiar with it.
> Is there a simple way to remove dependencies on luvit ?
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> I tried to make a quick and dirty rockspec file, but it doesn't seem to
> work.

In fact, lua-msgpack-native doesn't depend on luvit.
You could replace in the Makefile the current target 'all' by these 4
following lines :
all: msgpack.so

msgpack.so: mp.c
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -I /usr/local/include -shared -o msgpack.so mp.c

François