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- Subject: Re: A Lua to JavaScript translator
- From: Alex Queiroz <asandroq@...>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:56:56 +0000
Hallo,
On 10/21/09, V S P <toreason@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> I would recommend to consider metalua
> and do the source level translation rather than bytecode translation
> mainly because I think doing byte code translation would lead to need to
> emulate garbage collection
> idioms that are specific to lua (or so I think)
>
Actually source code translation is more prone to semantic
mismatches than bytecode translation, because the meaning of each
bytecode is simpler. The problem is the API (collectgarbage(), for
instance).
Cheers,
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-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/
