iOS, LuaJIT and FFI inline C

[Madrayken]

Hi folks,

I'm a bit confused. I believe that the iOS version of 0.10 isn't able to use some aspect of LuaJIT (or all of it, or has that changed with the latest version of Love2D?). If LuaJIT is disallowed, does this include the FFI library that would otherwise allow the use of inline C? Or is the disallowing 'passive' - as in, the LuaJIT aspect effectively stops people gaining the speedup, but other things work?

- D

[bobbyjones]

JIT is disabled. Everything else still works though. And is still faster than regular lua. Although without JIT, FFI will be slow. Because of that you can't really use FFI anywhere you need it to be fast. JIT is also disabled on Android due to it being unstable.

[Madrayken]

Cripes. That's a shame, on all counts. Thanks for explaining.

[Kyamel]

JIT is disabled. Everything else still works though. And is still faster than regular lua. Although without JIT, FFI will be slow. Because of that you can't really use FFI anywhere you need it to be fast. JIT is also disabled on Android due to it being unstable.

Can explain me the reasons for luaJIT be unstable on Android? I want to embed it on a Android project, would be great to have that knowledge from a well stabilished product like Love2D.

[pgimeno]

Can explain me the reasons for luaJIT be unstable on Android? I want to embed it on a Android project, would be great to have that knowledge from a well stabilished product like Love2D.

You're replying to a post from 2016. The ARM JIT compiler had some unstabilities back then, but it has since been fixed.