Re: iLuaBox Now Available - Run Lua on Your iPad

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 25/10/2010 23:28, Jonathan Castello wrote:
> It's not as dire as all that. Someone wrote a Lisp interpreter in
> Javascript which evaluates and runs code in<script type="text/lisp">
> tags. There's no reason something similar couldn't be done for Lua.

Somehow, it could be interesting if JavaScript (ECMAScript) had a define bytecode format, 
like Java. Parsing textual code to interpret it seems to be a waste of CPU. One can make 
his own bytecode and a VM in JavaScript to interpret it, but that's still an unnecessary 
layer, IMHO.

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