Re: Is there any plan to make luajit support bytecode?

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 15:12, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> LuaJIT will probably never support loading of plain Lua bytecode
>> (of any version).

>> LuaJIT may support loading of its own bytecode format, whenever
>> all of these points are fulfilled:

> Just a comment from far outside, would it possible for Mike, Roberto
> and Luiz to get together on a virtual round table, and work out a
> common bytecode format that works as well towards JIT as well as
> toward classic VM?

Why do you feel that this is needed?

Bytecode format is an implementation detail. Classic Lua and LuaJIT
have conflicting design goals, and attempt to devise and adhere to
standard bytecode format will hinder the progress of both.

Alexander.