Re: LuaJIT - Is ffi.alloca possible?

[Josh Haberman <jhaberman@...>]

Mike Pall <mikelu-1103 <at> mike.de> writes:
> Recent JVMs do
> escape analysis. But from what I hear, this is not such a big win,
> except for trivial examples.

Someone was claiming on HN a few days ago that escape analysis is a
major win for PyPy.  There was speculation that this isn't as
important for LuaJIT thanks to its representation that does not
require numbers to be boxed:
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373591

In that same thread someone claimed that you are planning to
implement escape analysis -- not sure where they got that info.  :)

Josh