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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Ravi (a Lua 5.3 dialect) with LLVM JIT Compilation technology - Alpha Release 0.17
- From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:54:45 -0700
Wow. Awesome performance specs. You mention a size penalty due to
llvm. Would that be moot on a platform such as FreeBSD that uses
clang?
Russ
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> Ravi (http://ravilang.org) is a dialect of Lua 5.3 with LLVM based JIT
> compiler and limited optional static typing.
>
> I am pleased to announce that the alpha 0.17 release of Ravi is now
> available.
>
> The principal changes in this release are:
>
> LLVM 3.9 support added.
>
> Support for 32-bit integer/float configuration was contributed.
>
> An updated version of a Visual Studio Code debugger extension was
> created. The extension is available in the Visual Studio Code
> extension marketplace. You can debug standalone Ravi/Lua 5.3 scripts
> using this extension. This is still work in progress but the basics
> are working.
>
> Ravi has been tested against LLVM 3.9, 3.8 and 3.7. LLVM versions 3.6 and
> 3.5 should still work but have not been tested.
>
> For full details and previous release history please visit:
>
> https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi/releases
>
> Regards
>
