[ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta5

[Mike Pall <mikelu-1008@...>]

This is the fifth beta release of LuaJIT 2.0.0.

This release accumulates many fixes of the past months and has a few
performance enhancements. Please check the changelog for more details.

Here is a link to the home page:
  http://luajit.org/luajit.html

A direct link to the download page:
  http://luajit.org/download.html

And a link to the changelog:
  http://luajit.org/changes.html

What is LuaJIT?
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LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time (JIT) Compiler for Lua. It's fully
compatible with standard Lua 5.1 and can significantly boost the
performance of your Lua programs.

LuaJIT is open source software, released under the MIT/X license.
LuaJIT builds out-of-the-box on most x86 or x64 operating systems
(Linux, Windows, OSX etc.).

This is a BETA TEST release -- the current status and the list of
known issues are shown here: http://luajit.org/status.html
Please report any problems you may find with this release. Thank you!

What's next:
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I'll now start working on a port of LuaJIT to PowerPC. This work
is sponsored by a corporate sponsor who wishes to remain anonymous.
In the first phase I'll port the hand-optimized LuaJIT interpreter
to the FreeScale e500v2 cores. You can follow the progress in the
git repository.

Please note that the e500v2 has a different FPU than most other
PowerPC CPUs. This port will _not_ run on other PPC-based machines
(e.g. game consoles). A port of the JIT compiler and/or a port to
other PowerPC CPUs may follow later.

--Mike