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FreeSWITCH 1.8
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FreeSWITCH 1.8

by Giovanni Maruzzelli, Anthony Minessale II
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
12h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Why Lua?

So, which language is better for FreeSWITCH scripting?

There is no science at all, here - all here is broscience. Yes, Lua is definitely more embeddable and faster than other languages; so what?

Scripting in FreeSWITCH has a precise role: to complement the dialplan for complex applications. That is, you use the dialplan for high-cps call dispatching. Or you use a custom C FreeSWITCH module. I would bet that, in any real-world scenario where scripting is used in its correct role, there is no meaningful performance gap between different scripting languages. Network delays, database queries, and caller reaction times will always be much more important than whatever script initialization/execution time.

That said, you balance your language ...

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