[cfe-dev] First shot at Bug 4127 - The clang driver should support cross compilation

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Tue Jan 10 01:15:15 PST 2012



10.01.2012, 13:09, "James Molloy" <James.Molloy at arm.com>:
> Hi,
>
> The idea of embedding a scripting language has been veto'd on multiple occasions because of
>
> (a) the dependency on a scripting language / putting a scripting interpreter in the tree
> (b) speed issues
> (c) turing completeness makes it impossible to guarantee a decent speed of execution.

While you're using Lua as data storage format it won't cause any performance problems. If some user needs to use scripting to accomplish the task, it's not your problem if performance is optimal (however, Lua interpreter itself is damn fast).

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Regards,
Konstantin



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