Hello,

What is Lua?

Thanks,
Sirbu Nicolae-Cezar


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> Thanks for the encouragement!  Comments inline:
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I didn't see it in the docs above, so thought I'd ask... Is this going to
> > include rollout of the CodeEditor extension, or will that be done
> > separately?
>
> That's a good question.  My initial instinct is to say "just
> Scribunto/Lua", but follow that closely with a CodeEditor deployment
> very soon.  Tim may have something else in mind for this, though, so
> he may correct me..  Is there any reason you're aware of not to deploy
> CodeEditor as well?  Any reason why we should avoid deploying
> Scribunto without CodeEditor?
>
> > This is exciting! Do we have plans for further measurement when it comes
> to
> > Lua's impact on page load times/publishing any results so far? In
> addition
> > to the general benefit of not having to program using wikitext/parser
> > functions, I seem to remember the performance improvements being the big
> > selling point of Scribunto.
>
> Tim did some initial benchmarks which showed a pretty marked
> improvement with the Cite template:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting/Benchmarking
>
> The cluster impact is going to be pretty modest (possibly unmeasurable
> at this point) but will have a positive impact once templates are
> converted to Lua.
>
> Rob
>
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