love-android: discussion

[T-Bone]

You can always root it and install something better, you know.

But yeah, Android 2.1 is a good place to aim at for now.

No you can't. The instructions for rooting this phone are impossible to perform because all the links to the required tools are broken. Screw that crap.

If you make a thread about rooting, I can help you out.

[Jasoco]

You can always root it and install something better, you know.

But yeah, Android 2.1 is a good place to aim at for now.

No you can't. The instructions for rooting this phone are impossible to perform because all the links to the required tools are broken. Screw that crap.

If you make a thread about rooting, I can help you out.

I don't want to root my crappy Android. It's slow enough as it is and not worth it. I don't even Jailbreak my iDevices. But thanks anyway.

[TechnoCat]

I don't want to root my crappy Android. It's slow enough as it is and not worth it. I don't even Jailbreak my iDevices. But thanks anyway.

The main feature with Android 2.2 is the optimized Dalvik VM. It makes a world of difference in terms of speed. If there is an option to root and get it, I would.

[T-Bone]

I must say that while it's a good idea to be compatible with Android 2.1, it is of huge importance that löve-android uses the Dalvik JIT-capabilities when possible (2.2+), if lua is run in pure Java. Otherwise, I'm afraid performance might become a quite big issue.

[slime]

Compile it with LuaJIT for ARM, then pure Lua code might be faster than the Java code in some cases.

[T-Bone]

Compile it with LuaJIT for ARM, then pure Lua code might be faster than the Java code in some cases.

But how good is the compatability between LÖVE and LuaJIT? The point of doing it all in luaj is that it's easy, which might actually get it done (which is really all that matters). Using Dalvik's JIT shouldn't require more than an extra line in the manifest, which doesn't make things harder but still improves performance. Therefore, it's worth doing.

[SiENcE]

LUAjit is buggy has hell!

[slime]

LuaJIT is nearly bug free. It is also a drop-in replacement for Lua so as long as you don't use the FFI you will get pretty much 100% compatibility with Lua 5.1.4 and love.

There is a bug in the latest love source code (reliance on order which is technically undefined) which causes love 0.8.0 to crash on quit with LuaJIT if you have text on-screen.

[thelinx]

LUAjit is buggy has hell!

[SiENcE]

We are using Lua in Iris2 very heavily ~2mb of lua code and we tried LuaJit and it makes Iris2 very unstable. Maybe today it's better, but as far as i know, not.