Re: Mike Pall's standalone FFI: a dream?

[zhiguo zhao <zhaozg@...>]

Me too.

2011/5/12 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>

dcharno <dcharno@comcast.net> writes:
> Yes, I have this dream often.  I doubt my applications would benefit
> from LuaJIT's performance, but the simplicity of the FFI makes it very
> attractive.

... and it would mean that one could rely on FFI as a "general solution"
for portable code.  LuaJIT is very nice, but it only works on a subset
of architectures, and knowing one can always fall back to standard Lua
is very comforting.

-Miles

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