On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi dev@ people, > > I'm thinking of changing the default value of LuaScope in trunk to > 'thread', as the current default, 'once', has a significant performance > impact (as I explained at ApacheCon). As Lua's garbage collector is > quite awesome (it's virtually impossible to leak memory unless you > deliberately do so), I don't see a reason why we should stick with > 'once' on threaded platforms, especially considering the overhead of > reloading libraries into the VMs if they are created and thrown away > after each request. I would also like for this to get backported to 2.4 > at some point, which is why I'm throwing you this email as a heads up. > > Thoughts? ideas? heckling?
You mentioned before some corner case with scripts relying on globals/statics/??? that this would affect. Can you give an idea of how corner that is?
