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William Hubbs posted on Sat, 01 Jul 2017 11:53:59 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> See this article for why using liblua as a shared library is not |
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> recommended. |
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/18519 |
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> Yes, it talks about the interpretor, but it goes further and really |
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> discourages even making a shared library available. |
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PMFJI, but... |
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That reply is from 2005 and is apparently specific to (32-bit) x86's |
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extreme shortage of general purpose registers. Back then it made sense |
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as 32-bit x86 was the dominant arch, both for gentoo, and (apparently) |
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for that lua discussion (which was in the debian context). |
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That x86 general lack of registers was one of the big pressures behind |
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the switch to amd64, before system memory sizes increased to 4GB+, and |
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applies far less to today's dominant amd64, with x86 now legacy/embedded. |
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Now it may well be that lua performance remains register sensitive even |
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with the increased number of registers available in amd64 and other |
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modern archs, but quoting an 11+-year-old email written in the extremely |
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register-restricted 32-bit x86 context does little to argue that point. |
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So... got any equivalent links to posts with more modern figures? |
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All that said, in FLOSS, he who volunteers, makes the rules, and |
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particularly given the upstream opposition meaning more gentoo-level work |
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required, if there's nobody willing to support lua in gentoo with dynamic |
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linking... |
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... people unable or unwilling to volunteer to support their preferred |
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alternative get to live with one they don't like, whether that be |
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accepting what their existing distro provides even if it's not optimal, |
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switching to another, or supporting their own patches or builds apart |
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from gentoo. |
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At least gentoo makes the latter case relatively easy compared to some |
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distros. I did it with kde twice, when gentoo/kde wasn't supporting |
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builds without semantic-desktop. =:^) |
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And in this case it appears there's even someone already doing it and |
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making their work public via the lua overlay. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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