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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
