Re: Design questions for a small s-expression library

[Antonio Vieiro <antonio@...>]

El 21/01/14 10:24, lua-l-request@lists.lua.org escribió:
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:56:54 -0200
> From: Elias Barrionovo <elias.tandel@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Design questions for a small s-expression library
> To: Lua mailing list <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
>
> On Jan 18, 2014 12:05 PM, "Antonio Vieiro" <antonio@antonioshome.net> wrote:
> > 3. LuaJIT will be as performant in approach B (invoking C functions for
> "car", "cdr", etc.) as in approach A (using Lua native code).
>
> Not really, since the "classic" C API aborts LuaJIT traces, while plain Lua
> is properly JITted (except for a few builtins, such as next()).

Yep, I imagine I would have to use the LuaJIT FFI library.

Anyway the "in C" approach proved to be a pain in the neck from the 
memory management point of view. Plain Lua is not doing bad.

Thanks,
Antonio