Re: Assembler in Lua?

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, beo wulf wrote:
>
> I want to be able to, in lua, write assembly code,
> which the library then assembles, registers with the lua vm,
> which I can then call into.
>
> Are there any libraries that make this possible?

Perhaps you can use bits of DynASM to do this.
http://luajit.org/dynasm_features.html

> The goal here -- if I can do this, then I don't need to write most of
> my code in C++ and then do all this bridging -- I can even write the
> compute intensive parts in lua.

Write the compute-intensive parts in high-level Lua and run the code on
LuaJIT :-)

Tony.
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