Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.6.0

["Joseph Stewart" <joseph.stewart@...>]

Well, assuming there's a gateway to the almost infinite array of perl
modules, that would be a plus...

-joe

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Stefan Sandberg
<keffo.sandberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
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>  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.
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