Re: Lua and Neko comparison

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Nicolas Cannasse a écrit :
> I have been working in the past years on the Neko VM (http://nekovm.org)
> which share similar goals with Lua. I was interested in comparing the
> different choices made by the two VM and how they can impact the
> performances, so I wrote a comparison report available there :
>
> http://nekovm.org/lua
>
> I would like to get reviews and feedbacks from people that have been
> working on Lua VM or have knowledge about its internals.

A subtle (?) way to advertise your language ;-)

Wow, your Neko looks aggressive! :-)
I mean, the one on the (nice) logo.
As everybody know, neko means cat in Japanese.

Sometime, I regret that strings in Lua are always immutable, but this 
can be worked around, either by creating a library to manage string 
buffers, or by pushing values in tables and concatenating them after 
(perhaps at the cost of a slight memory overhead).

Your FFI code might interest me. I know how to do this in Windows, 
thanks to indications given in this very list years ago, but I have 
nothing ready-made for callbacks. I have a vague idea how to manage 
them, but I am not sure how to pull arguments from the stack.
Will study your code...

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