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- Subject: Re: [ANN] First release of Ravi (alpha 0.1)
- From: Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@...>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 21:41:51 +0300
On Apr 9, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-04-09 6:38 GMT+02:00 Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@gmail.com>:
>
>> Are you aware of Terra? It's a Lua descendant with static typing,
>> pointers, FFI, very nice metaprogramming features and
>> JIT compilation using LLVM. Maybe worth to peek how it's done.
>
> I was not aware of Terra, so I tried it.
>
> More precisely, it's a LuaJIT descendant
Not really. While LuaJIT is a tracing JIT compiler, Terra uses LLVM to statically compile Terra functions into machine code the first time functions are called. I think Terra needs LuaJIT just for its FFI.
Petri
