Re: [ANN] luajit-msgpack - with questions to Mike

[Pierre Chapuis <catwell@...>]

On 23.11.2011 13:33, Alexander Nasonov wrote:

>  - msgpack_unpack_next C function because LuaJIT doesn't support
>    bool/_Bool in return type. If I change it to int (and "not ok"
>    to "ok == 0"), v.lua from LuaJIT stops complaining about
>    unsupported function. To do it properly you need to wrap
>    msgpack_unpack_next but it'd be nice to hear from Mike about
>    supporting bool in LuaJIT.

I could do that. How do you check whether it turns off JIT?

>    Actually, you run a loop only to check whether a table has a
>    non-array part and how many keys it has in total. Is it feasible 
> to
>    implement this functionality in LuaJIT and make it JITable?

I know, it's not efficient. Another way to do it would be to have the
user explicitly mark lists as lists, for instance with a metatable,
and otherwise encode everything as hash tables.

This is one of the many times I have wished Lua had a real list type...

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Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis