LÖVE

I need bitwise operations

LuaJIT would be a much better choice. There are even builds of LÖVE which use LuaJIT already: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8750#p53963

I second LuaJIT. It makes my math calculations so much faster for my 3D engine. Unless 5.2 is just as fast?

Just pick one that's nice and fast and that's all I care.

Jasoco wrote:I second LuaJIT. It makes my math calculations so much faster for my 3D engine. Unless 5.2 is just as fast?

Just pick one that's nice and fast and that's all I care.

5.2 is no faster than regular 5.1. I don't believe there is any good reason to want 5.2 instead of LuaJIT, since LuaJIT implements some 5.2 features by default (and more if you ask when compiling it.)

Count me in the Luajit camp too. I think some of the backwards-breaking changes in 5.2 are too gratuitous, and Luajit is way faster.

slime wrote:LuaJIT would be a much better choice. There are even builds of LÖVE which use LuaJIT already: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8750#p53963

thanks, it works great
but if I were to share my .love, I'd have to tell them to use love with luajit instead of regular love..

I also agree with Luajit being used instead of 5.1 by default as it means everyone gets faster results and those with bad PCs (like me) can run a wider range of LÖVE games at a good speed (especially the 3D ones)

I would like Lua 5.2, but LuaJIT would be a better idea for what people use Love for. In terms of what we'd get from Lua 5.2, I think the _ENV feature is the only thing missing from the most recent version of LuaJIT.

So are there drawbacks to switching to LuaJIT instead of Lua 5.2? I love the speed boost LuaJIT gives us.

LuaJit has a limited number of platforms it can run on. But Love runs on less platforms than LuaJit, so it wouldn't be an immediate problem.