Are they using regular Lua? Because LuaJIT can actually be quite fast. Snabb Switch is written mostly in Lua and it features Linux userland ethernet device driv

Are they using regular Lua? Because LuaJIT can actually be quite fast. Snabb Switch is written mostly in Lua and it features Linux userland ethernet device drivers. http://blog.lukego.com/blog/2013/01/03/snabb-switchs-luajit-ethernet-device-driver/ http://blog.lukego.com/blog/2013/01/03/snabb-switchs-luajit-... (edit: link to the code https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/master/src/apps/intel https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/master/src/apps/...) btw. there once was a project which added a Scheme interpreter to the Linux kernel. Sadly it's dead now: http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/ http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/