rlm_perl does not honor start_servers?

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

> On 1 Apr 2016, at 09:33, Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>> My script is only 470 lines long, but it uses DBI module (and some minor others). Maybe it's quite complex and causing the slowdown.
>>>  The DBI module is huge.
>>> 
>>>  If your Perl script is 470 lines, you can probably do all of that work in unlang.
>> Actually, i'm trying to migrate from unlang to Perl.
>> Because of unlang's poor syntax (such as returning only one value from {%sql .. })
> 
> map sql "SELECT ALL, THE, COLUMNS FROM STFU WHERE 1" {
> 	Reply-Message += 'ALL',
> 	Reply-Message += 'THE',
> 	Reply-Message += 'COLUMNS'
> }
> 
> -Arran

I have almost a complete rlm_lua implementation, there just doesn't seem to be a demand for it.

Lua/LuaJIT was designed to be embedded, they are insanely fast (especially so with LuaJIT), lock free, and fits well with our current and future processing models.

The marshalling/unmarshalling code in rlm_perl and rlm_python is complete garbage, the stuff I wrote for rlm_lua does everything on the fly as attributes are read from and written to.

I expect marshalling rlm_python could be improved, but I hold out little hope for the steaming pile of filth that is Perl.

-Arran

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS Development Team

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