Re: [ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1

[Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@...>]

>> Will SSE2 support be minimum required?
>
> The status page mentions it:
>
>  The JIT compiler can only generate code for CPUs with SSE2 at
>  the moment. I.e. you need at least a P4, Core 2/i5/i7 or K8/K10
>  to use it. I plan to fix this during the beta phase and add
>  support for emitting x87 instructions to the backend.
>
> But this is a lot of work and kind of low priority right now. In
> the meantime you could just use LJ1. Or try building LJ2 as a pure
> interpreter. Uncomment this line in the Makefile;
>
>  XCFLAGS+= -DLUAJIT_DISABLE_JIT
>
> Then run 'make clean && make'. The interpreter uses x87 only
> (wouldn't make much of a difference to use SSE2 there).
>
> --Mike
>

Cool, sorry for the noise, didn't see status page. Thanks Andrew