Package: nginx-extras Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: normal Dear nginx maintainers,
I would like you to seriously consider adopting the following patch. Basically it consists on switching over ngx_lua module on nginx-extras in favor of luaJIT as Lua interpreter. LuaJIT is a totally lua-compatible implementation that aims for, between others, boosting performance on intensive CPU operations (like arithmetics) by enabling calling external C code, and ends up building just-in-time code to be loaded into ngx_lua stack. Independently of this, there is a way larger extension support on LuaJIT than regular Lua, that includes, for example, FFI built-in support. This extends Nginx through ngx_lua into a whole new universe of features that regular Lua interpreter alone lacks. If it provides any help, as while developing my own apps on top of ngx_lua, I migrated with no changes at all from lua5.1 to luajit5.1 implementation, just to serve the purpose of adopting missing features on external modules that depended on, for example, FFI support. Mostly all third-party ngx_lua modules out there are using it and even the major nginx-modules provider and OpenResty maintainer fully explains[1] his decision on why switching over to luaJIT for building ngx_lua. This is the reason why I upgraded this bug report severity to "normal" instead of an expected "wishlist" one, since I consider switching over to luajit as Lua interpreter would extremely enhance user experience. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Dererk 1. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openresty-en/Fd370Ly3Upg -- BOFH excuse #342: HTTPD Error 4004 : very old Intel cpu - insufficient processing power
diff -ruN nginx-1.6.0.orig/debian/changelog nginx-1.6.0/debian/changelog
--- nginx-1.6.0.orig/debian/changelog 2014-04-24 13:23:46.000000000 -0300
+++ nginx-1.6.0/debian/changelog 2014-07-24 03:50:55.018594460 -0300
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+nginx (1.6.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * debian/modules/nginx-lua:
+ + Switching over to luajit as lua interpreter (Closes: #).
+ + Reflect this on debian/control.
+
+ -- Ulises Vitulli <der...@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jul 2014 03:48:25 -0300
+
nginx (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Christos Trochalakis ]
diff -ruN nginx-1.6.0.orig/debian/control nginx-1.6.0/debian/control
--- nginx-1.6.0.orig/debian/control 2014-04-24 13:23:46.000000000 -0300
+++ nginx-1.6.0/debian/control 2014-07-24 03:00:27.348014153 -0300
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
libexpat-dev,
libgd2-dev | libgd2-noxpm-dev,
libgeoip-dev,
- liblua5.1-dev,
+ libluajit-5.1-dev,
libmhash-dev,
libpam0g-dev,
libpcre3-dev,
diff -ruN nginx-1.6.0.orig/debian/modules/nginx-lua/config nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-lua/config
--- nginx-1.6.0.orig/debian/modules/nginx-lua/config 2014-04-24 13:23:46.000000000 -0300
+++ nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-lua/config 2014-07-24 03:48:10.816586362 -0300
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@
ngx_feature="Lua library in /usr/"
ngx_feature_path="/usr/include/lua5.1"
if [ $NGX_RPATH = YES ]; then
- ngx_feature_libs="-R/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lm -llua5.1"
+ ngx_feature_libs="-R/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lm -lluajit-5.1"
else
- ngx_feature_libs="-L/usr/lib -lm -llua5.1"
+ ngx_feature_libs="-L/usr/lib -lm -lluajit-5.1"
fi
. auto/feature
fi
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