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Message: Developers FAQ

Changed By: magma1447
Change Date: March 19, 2018 11:07AM

Developers FAQ
[b]Why was LUA chosen?[/b]
LUA is an excellent language for Sandboxing.

[b]What is a Sandbox?[/b]
We will refer to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)]Wikipedia[/url] for that.

[b]My script ends up with an empty page[/b]
There generally are two reasons for this.
[list]
[*] The scripts are limited to the use of about 1024 MB of memory, running on a dedicated server.
[*] [s]The maximum execution time is 30 seconds.
[/s] A timeout should now return such error message.
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Original Message

Author: magma1447
Date: April 28, 2016 02:44PM

Developers FAQ
[b]Why was LUA chosen?[/b]
LUA is an excellent language for Sandboxing.

[b]What is a Sandbox?[/b]
We will refer to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)]Wikipedia[/url] for that.

[b]My script ends up with an empty page[/b]
There generally are two reasons for this.
[list]
[*] The scripts are limited to the use of about 1024 MB of memory, running on a dedicated server.
[*] The maximum execution time is 30 seconds.
[/list]