LuaJIT in realtime applications
- From: Luke Gorrie <lukego@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:57:18 +0200
Howdy!
I'm interested in using LuaJIT in a realtime application. In particular I'd
like to use LuaJIT code instead of iptables-style patterns in a network
forwarding engine, and I'd like to be able to establish some upper-bounds
on processing time for my own peace of mind. For example, to be able to be
confident that rules of a certain basic complexity level would never take
more than (say) 50us to execute.
Is this a realistic notion?
I'm guessing that GC is the main issue to be concerned about. I wonder if
for example I could simply detect when a GC is needed and in that case
simply allocate a fresh new VM instead and discard the old one. (Perhaps
I'm dreaming up a solution to a problem that doesn't exist -- I'll stop
here.)
Any advice appreciated!
Cheers,
-Luke
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