Mike Pall

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Contributions to Lua

Major Projects

• [LuaJIT] a Just-In-Time (JIT) Compiler for Lua.
• [Coco] an extension for "true" C coroutine semantics (yield from anywhere).

Wiki Pages

• BuildingModules
• ResumableVmPatch
• FastStringPatch

Maintained Patches

• LuaPowerPatches: advanced readline support, download [for Lua 5.0] [for Lua 5.1]

Experimental Patches

• PATCH: true C coroutines -- yield across C stack from anywhere [view message]: proof of concept, early predecessor of Coco.
• ResumableVmPatch for Lua 5.1-work*: Fully resumable Lua VM (allows yield across pcall/callbacks/metamethods): now abandoned, see Coco.
• Experimental FastStringPatch for Lua-5.1-work*: Fast, non-heap-allocated strings for the Lua VM: unclear benefits, Lua/C API problems.

Lua Bug Fixes

• PATCH: Lua 5.1-work2 64 bit cleanups [view message]: was merged into Lua 5.1-work3.
• PATCH: Lua 5.1-work3 loadlib cleanups [download] (update #4): most of it was merged into Lua 5.1-work4.
• PATCH: Lua 5.1-alpha hex numbers and bit ops [download]: Lua 5.1 supports hex numbers out of the box (but using a different approach).
• PATCH: Lua 5.0.2 popen/pclose fix [view message]
• Various patches to Diego Nehab's [LuaSocket]
• Many smaller bug reports and patches which went into Lua 5.1.

Thank you, Mike, for all those reports and fixes. --lhf