Re: [ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1

[Vyacheslav Egorov <mister.aleph@...>]

> if it were compiled with LuaJIT-2, would it "just work"?

No, it was already discussed before (when Mike announced that he
altered bytecode format). Someone needs to provide a new bytecode
backend.

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e.v.e



On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Benjamin Tolputt
<btolputt@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Joshua Jensen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Which would be an incredible pain for me... Metalua is a god-send for
> using idioms like try/catch/finally in Lua. I haven't dug too deep into
> Metalua, but if it were compiled with LuaJIT-2, would it "just work"?
>
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> Regards,
>
> Benjamin Tolputt
> Analyst Programmer
>
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