Re: [Bug-zile] Zile Lua: Gary, please feel free to look after the branch for now

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On 9 Aug 2011, at 04:28, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 8 August 2011 22:26, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> And at the moment, it seems to have some performance issues when using the
>> puc-rio runtime.  But all of that is just a simple matter of programming.
> 
> Absolutely. That's because the Lua string heap works terribly badly
> for implementing buffers as a linked list of strings.

Good point.  Do you think porting the buffer-gap algorithm from C Zile into
Lua will make much difference here (without the need to descend into loading
another C module into the Lua runtime)?

> I see the way around this to use the C implementation from current master.

That's a last resort, I hope?  Easy though it is to extend Lua with C, I'd
really like to rule out algorithmic improvements before what I think might
turn out to be the premature optimisation of porting bits of lua back to C
again...

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)