Re: cgit-lua: to jit or not to jit

["Aaron B." <aaron@...>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:25:20 +0100
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:

> I'm unable to find any advantages mainline Lua has over
> LuaJIT, which is why I'm emailing these lists. What features am I
> forgetting about that would make some people prefer mainline Lua over
> LuaJIT?
> 

Firstly, I'll admit my situation is unusual - and unusually flexible. But I have no reason to support LuaJIT.

All external modules already have bindings, so the FFI isn't a help. More importantly, there are bigger things than performance - mainline Lua is more than fast enough. I'd rather use what has more eyeballs searching for bugs. Having multiple "versions" with different assembly implementations scares me from a reliability standpoint. I jump around architectures all the time, how do I know how well supported the less common processors ones are? Similiar situations have burned me before.

Oh, and my 500mhz sparc64 boxen work just fine and have plenty of spare parts. Don't fix what isn't broken ;)

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Aaron B. <aaron@zadzmo.org>