OT: 'best' dynamic language

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:23:26PM +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> Igor Sysoev ha scritto:
> >On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:50:58AM +0200, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:
> >
> >>On Son 20.04.2008 15:38, Cliff Wells wrote:
> >>>On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 00:26 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I'm very interested in developing a module for lua (or io), mostly
> >>>>for testing the best possible integration with the Nginx event
> >>>>module.
> >>>I'd like to see Lua as a replacement/alternative for Nginx's Perl
> >>>module.  Unlike most dynamic languages, Lua was originally designed to
> >>>be embedded.  I find its syntax much cleaner than Perl and it
> >>>undoubtedly has a much smaller memory footprint.
> >>I prefer nekovm (http://www.nekovm.org/) for this ;-)
> >>
> >>Look:
> >>
> >>http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/neko/2008-April/thread.html
> >>
> >>=> NGinx and NekoVM
> >
> >It seems that Neko as well as Lua, perl, etc do the same in memory
> >allocation failure case: exit() or nothing, i.e., segfault.
> >
> 
> From what I can see, Lua (as Python) throws an exception in case of 
> memory allocation failure.
> 
> Python uses a statically allocated object for the Memory Error exception.
> 
> Lua uses _longjmp/_setjmp, with integer representing error codes.
> It only calls exit if no exception handler is installed.

Well, but what can I do in exception handler ?
Destroy a whole interpreter, leaving various leaks ?


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