Re: flua 0.1 - first release!

["Kristofer Karlsson" <kristofer.karlsson@...>]

Hi, this is very interesting to me, since your project seems to be
almost identical to Kahlua in scope and goal, except that your target
platform is ActionScript and mine is Java. I'll take a look at your
source code just for fun and see if I can spot any similarities and
differences, and if you have come up with any smart ideas that I have
overlooked.

Kristofer

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Jason Neufeld <jnlopar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all! Mostly to prove this isn't vaporware I put out a very, very
> pre-alpha release of flua on http://gcre8.com/flua , under the same
> MIT license as Lua. The better address, http://flua.gcre8.com/ should
> be working by tomorrow, depending on DNS propagation of course. I'd
> like to hear comments on it! I've made some good progress, most
> notably moving it to a program counter-based setup instead of
> recursive + PC for all functions, which should allow for the eventual
> addition of things like coroutines. Sadly the (once beautiful) code is
> now a wasteland because of all the optimization, but in this case I
> think the speed it worth the sacrifice! I've achieved a more than 10x
> improvement from my original time of 12 seconds on the fibonacci code
> down to .95 seconds on my macbook pro. I might rollback a couple of
> the optimizations that don't do much just to make my life more sane
> (especially where I replaced some registers' variables with the direct
> bitwise operation, or even worse, repeated the bitwise codes on every
> opcode only where it is necessary instead of once all inclusive at the
> top of the select switch just to save cycles!)
>
> Anyway, tell me what ya think! I'm still a bit of a noob at the whole
> Lua thing specifically but I hope the coding skills and principles
> I've worked to build up in other languages will make up for that as
> time goes on... Thanks! :)
>
> Jason Neufeld (Phil. 3:12)
>