[Freedombox-discuss] Introducing myself and netsukuku

[Matt Joyce]

Lua sees a lot of use in the wrt community and many smaller embedded
devices.  It's a very light app stack.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Luca Dionisi <luca.dionisi at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
> > Luca can you provide documentation on how your protocol operates on a
> more
> > abstract layer?  Like maybe a logical flow chart?
>
> You can find official documentation on the site
> http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/
> and find the docs on the repository
> http://dev.hinezumi.org/browser/netsukuku/trunk/doc/main_doc/netsukuku.pdf
> http://dev.hinezumi.org/browser/netsukuku/trunk/doc/main_doc/qspn.pdf
> http://dev.hinezumi.org/browser/netsukuku/trunk/doc/main_doc/topology.pdf
>
> > I might be able to mimic basic functionality in c or lua if it seems like
> it
> > won't be a herculean effort.
>
> A port to another language would not be a huge effort per se.
> The choice on Stackless Python has been made mainly because it offers
> the ability to run tasklets, a sort of very light weight threads.
> The program can spawn a large number of them without suffering from
> big overhead on memory and cpu.
>
> Hence, the port should be made on a language that supports them. It's
> a kind of coroutines.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine
> You can see that C does not support them per se.
>
> And of course the port should have a reason. E.g. is lua more
> supported than stackless python on embedded devices?
>
> If you are interested in continuing the discussion, subscribe to the
> project's mailing list and let's continue there.
> http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku
>
> --Luca
>
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