Re: Lua/LuaJIT2 performance on Android

[Mike Pall <mikelu-1104@...>]

Dimiter malkia Stanev wrote:
> First I had a problem of "Unknown something: .private extern" -
> can't remember the exact error, but now rereading this message, it
> came to me that I have to add TARGE_SYS=linux, and voila:

I've just added an explanation to the cross-compilation docs. Note
that you need to use TARGET_SYS=Linux (upper-case 'L').

> Hmmm... I scratch my head thinking how close the ppc port is to
> xbox/ps3 - probably quite different, these last two being completely
> different "OS-s"

PPC/e500 and PPC are incompatible (different FPUs). A port to
regular PPC (which would work on the consoles) may follow later.

[But any interpreter runs rather slow on the consoles, because the
Cell/Xenon chips have a reduced PPC design. Alas, they left out
the parts that are crucial for the performance of an interpreter.
And in their infinite wisdom they decided to rule out JIT compilers
(as if that helped to keep their platforms closed -- bah).]

--Mike