Re: [ANN] Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically

["Glenn G. Chappell" <glenn.chappell@...>]

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 6:50 AM Haoran Xu <haoranxu510@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of you might remember a post titled "Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically" months ago.
> After a few more months of work, I am glad to share the next step: Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically.
> In short, the post explained how we used a novel meta-compiler to automatically generate a high-performance baseline JIT for Lua from bytecode semantics specified in C++.

That's fantastic.

I'm wondering about the choice to go with Lua 5.1. Obviously, you
can't compare LJR with LuaJIT if LJR is based on a later Lua version.
But doing a later version would be useful, I think.
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Glenn G. Chappell  <><  glenn.chappell@gmail.com