Re: [ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Pall
Date: 11/2/2009 5:43 PM
> David Given wrote:
>    
> > If at any point you felt inclined to formalise and document the LJ2
> > bytecode, it might be interesting as a target for other languages
> > (assuming the bytecode is any easier to use than just emitting Lua, of
> > course).
> >      
> Emitting source is easier. But the semantic mismatches vs. other
> languages make this an unattractive option.
>    
Metalua, I believe, outputs bytecode.  I haven't had much success with 
its source output.  So, I imagine, without a bytecode translator or a 
LuaJIT emitter added to Metalua, it isn't possible to use Metalua 
extensions with LuaJIT.

Just talking out loud.  I haven't tried LuaJIT 2 yet, but I am very 
impressed by the benchmarks.

Josh