Re: Java wrapper for LuaJIT?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Mike Pall<mikelu-0908@mike.de> wrote:
> If you have a large Java code base, it may be a better choice to
> look for a scripting language which stays inside the Java domain
> (i.e. generates Java classes at runtime) and thus doesn't have to
> use JNI.

I did indicate to John privately that calls between Lua and Java are
not going to be fast. For scripting glue, that is acceptable, I
suppose - but he did say _fast_ ;)

There is at least one pure Java implementation of Lua (Kahlua) which
I'm aware of.  Their niche is smart phones.

steve d.