lua-users home
lua-l archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]


>lua2c is fun, and I can
>easily imagine where it'd be useful, but only in an "if I wanted to get
>there, I wouldn't start here" situation, e.g. you have a big
>compute-intensive pure Lua app that needs to go faster (hint: don't use
>Lua for this sort of app).

I think lua2c is mostly an educational tool: you want to write C code to
do something in Lua that you know how to do in Lua. So you see what lua2c
gives you and that's probably a very good start.
--lhf