Re: Lua as a scripting language in NetBSD

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:01:01 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> Basic VM heap consumption after start up should be somewhere in the area
> of 20KB for a standard environment. As side effect of coroutine support,
> the stack usage itself is minimal, but I don't have numbers for that.

This is definitely smaller than SpiderMonkey's even without a DOM or
other extra libraries.  The bytecode being designed to use registers
rather than stack is probably another advantage, especially if a JIT is
to optionally be used...
-- 
Matt