Re: [ANN] lbcv 0.2 - A bytecode verifier for Lua 5.2

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Mike Pall wrote:
> Tony Finch wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Mike Pall wrote:
> > > [For comparison: the LuaJIT parser is about 50% faster than the
> > > Lua parser for the same Lua source code.]
> >
> > I would be intrested if you could give us a summary of the things you do
> > to make it faster.
>
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-03/msg00074.html

Interesting, thanks. I thought the received wisdom is that the
per-character overhead of lexing dominated the front end of
compilers but this suggests otherwise.

Tony.
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