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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically
- From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 08:24:05 -0500
Can you share the reasons why it targets Lua 5.1 instead of the latest version?
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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.
> On May 13, 2023, at 2:01 AM, Glenn G. Chappell <glenn.chappell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> --
> Glenn G. Chappell <>< glenn.chappell@gmail.com
