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Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but what's the upside of that? :)

I mean, is the parrot vm significantly faster or easier to deploy than luas, or is it supposed to be a bridge between languages or some such? From what I can tell, lua will run wherever parrot does, so if it's not a major performance increase etc, etc, what's the upside?

François Perrad wrote:

Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see http://www.parrotcode.org/).
Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.6.0.

A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 (aligned on 5.1.3) is available :
- an Lua interpreter written in PIR (Parrot Intermediate Representation) that generates PIR
 - a large subset of the Lua Standard Librairies (written in PIR)
 - a test suite (more than 980 tests)

For the first time, with Parrot 0.6.0, all garbage collection problems seem to be fixed.

Documentation starts in http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/running.pod?view=markup and http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/status.pod?view=markup.

Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome on Parrot mailing list (perl6-internals@perl.org).

François Perrad.