Re: LuaJIT - an alternative for current Python C bindings

2012-11-16 Thread Florian Weimer
On 11/15/2012 07:44 PM, Alek Paunov wrote: LuaJIT is currently not available for our secondary architectures, so this would need fixing first. ("not available" meaning exactly that, there is no fallback to a slow C interpreter mode or something like that.) Oh, I completely forgot the seconda

Re: LuaJIT - an alternative for current Python C bindings

2012-11-15 Thread Alek Paunov
Hi Florian, On 15.11.2012 13:18, Florian Weimer wrote: On 11/15/2012 01:49 AM, Alek Paunov wrote: So, to me it seems natural joining all above together to start thinking for replacing the classic python C bindings with thin textual or bytecode(*) LuaJIT/FFI shims in benefit of things with grea

Re: LuaJIT - an alternative for current Python C bindings

2012-11-15 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:18 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> On 11/15/2012 01:49 AM, Alek Paunov wrote: >> >>> So, to me it seems natural joining all above together to start thinking >>> for replacing the classic python C bindings with thin textual

Re: LuaJIT - an alternative for current Python C bindings

2012-11-15 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 11/15/2012 01:49 AM, Alek Paunov wrote: > >> So, to me it seems natural joining all above together to start thinking >> for replacing the classic python C bindings with thin textual or >> bytecode(*) LuaJIT/FFI shims in benefit of things

Re: LuaJIT - an alternative for current Python C bindings

2012-11-15 Thread Florian Weimer
On 11/15/2012 01:49 AM, Alek Paunov wrote: So, to me it seems natural joining all above together to start thinking for replacing the classic python C bindings with thin textual or bytecode(*) LuaJIT/FFI shims in benefit of things with great set of dependencies like Anaconda (thanks to lupa, Lua

Re: LuaJIT - an alternative for current Python C bindings

2012-11-14 Thread Alek Paunov
On 15.11.2012 04:51, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: How much Python code are you proposing "someone" ports to Lua? ;-) I am proposing mostly porting C code to Lua/FFI (the code of the problematic Python C bindings) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: LuaJIT - an alternative for current Python C bindings (was: Re: raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature)

2012-11-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
How much Python code are you proposing "someone" ports to Lua? ;-) On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Alek Paunov wrote: > On 12.11.2012 21:34, Steve Grubb wrote: >> >> >> But the problem I see is a lot of libraries are wrapped by swig, which >> leaks >> memory like a sieve. If swig didn't generat