How we work on the stability of our Lua implementation
summary
IPONWEB describes maintaining a custom fork of LuaJIT used for over ten years to run business logic, focusing on ensuring the runtime’s stability. The talk covers their process for finding, debugging and fixing bugs in their Lua implementation and practices they apply to keep this critical component reliable.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:16Lua testing types
- 8:18Compliance test problems
- 12:30Unit testing complex components
- 17:28JIT compiler testing
- 23:22Incident investigation
- 33:45Summary
- 44:22Q&A
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