On Sunday 29 January 2006 13:05, LEGO wrote: [...] > Not long ago I've read a post on this list (debian package thread) > stating that it's not encouraged to dinamically link against a Lua > shared lib on the target system. Been that both against our policy and > common practice I wonder which are the underlying reasons. One of the major reasons for not using shared libraries for Lua, I gather, is that on Intel processors, shared libraries require the exclusive use of one register for housekeeping purposes; and the ia32 architecture has so few registers that this causes Lua to become significantly slower. -- +- David Given --McQ-+ "I must have spent at least ten minutes out of my | dg@cowlark.com | life talking to this joker like he was a sane | (dg@tao-group.com) | person. I want a refund." --- Louann Miller, on +- www.cowlark.com --+ rasfw
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