LuaJIT

[Luiji]

Somebody suggested this on the IRC but I don't remember who.

Using an alternative to Lua mainstream such as LuaJIT might do well, as LuaJIT uses Just-In-Time compilation, which is known for increasing the speed of execution noticeably.

I am also designing a virtual machine which will support much of the Lua functionality and will have an API that is compatible with mainstream Lua, so if the above idea sounds cool but you are going to put it off for awhile then maybe you could wait until I finish my virtual machine (codename NanoVM).

[thelinx]

LuaJIT doesn't support all architectures out there.

[Luiji]

Aw. Well that idea died quickly.

[bartbes]

If it was a lib, so we could fall back to normal lua we might do it, but sadly, it isn't.

[alexandream]

Oh well, too bad it doesn't cut it. But it is a good reason, indeed.

It was I who suggested it on IRC, anyways

By the way, this is my first post in this forum! And I still don't obey...

-- Alexandre, aka 'alarmo'

[thelinx]

It was I who suggested it on IRC, anyways

It's been suggested a lot of times.

[Elvashi]

Its not a lib? Then what is it? Surely it could be supported as an alternate, used only on platforms that support it? :confuzzled:

[bartbes]

It's a complete build, if we were to integrate it and we need to retain support for normal lua, thinks would get freaky, not to mention freakily large.

[Luiji]

Ahem, I just read the documentation for LuaJIT and it says that it can be used as a "drop-in replacement for standard Lua", implying we don't have to do any coding, and simply replace the libraries...

[rude]

LuaJIT has been planned since ages ago. I think it would great if we could use that instead of regular Lua on the platforms that support it.