Re: [patch] put Lua standard libraries into the kernel

[Lourival Vieira Neto <lourival.neto%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:
> Am 29.11.13 12:38, schrieb Lourival Vieira Neto:
>>> It will be interesting to see by how much memory the addition of the
>>> standard libraries will grow lua(4).  lneto claims it does not grow at
>>> all.  If it should, we can still move the standard libraries to a kmod.
>>
>> I just double checked now (using nm to confirm). In fact, I was
>> commenting the wrong portion of the Makefile to test. Sorry about that
>> =(. Here is the result in amd64: 240K with stdlibs and auxlib, 166K
>> with only auxlib and 154K solo. Anyway, I still think that is 86K is
>> not that much to have things like {base, string, table}lib. However,
>> though I think stdlibs could be in another kmod, I think that is not a
>> good idea to have auxlib in another one. Lua auxlib is just an
>> extension of the Lua C API and 12K is really a fair price to have a
>> more complete Lua library in kernel, IMO.
>
> We could for now just go ahead, put auxlib and the stdlibs in lua(4) as
> foreseen, and when the need arises, we can still factor out the stdlibs
> to their own kmod.

Agreed. Anyone opposes?

Regards,
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Lourival Vieira Neto