LuaJIT

-LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the -» Lua programming language. -Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language. -It may be embedded or used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. -

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Compatibility

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Windows

Linux

BSD

OSX

POSIX

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Embedded

Android

iOS

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PS3

PS4

PS Vita

Xbox 360

Xbox One

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GCC

Clang
LLVM

MSVC

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x86
x64

ARM
ARM64

PPC

MIPS32
MIPS64

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Lua 5.1
API+ABI

+ JIT

+ BitOp

+ FFI

Drop-in
DLL/.so

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Overview

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3x - 100x	115 KB VM	90 KB JIT	63 KLOC C	24 KLOC ASM	11 KLOC Lua

-LuaJIT has been successfully used as a scripting middleware in -games, appliances, network and graphics apps, numerical simulations, -trading platforms and many other specialty applications. It scales from -embedded devices, smartphones, desktops up to server farms. It combines -high flexibility with » high performance -and an unmatched low memory footprint. -

-LuaJIT has been in continuous development since 2005. It's widely -considered to be one of the fastest dynamic language -implementations. It has outperformed other dynamic languages on many -cross-language benchmarks since its first release — often by a -substantial margin. -

-For LuaJIT 2.0, the whole VM has been rewritten from the ground up -and relentlessly optimized for performance. It combines a high-speed -interpreter, written in assembler, with a state-of-the-art JIT -compiler. -

-An innovative trace compiler is integrated with advanced, -SSA-based optimizations and highly tuned code generation backends. -A substantial reduction of the overhead associated with dynamic languages -allows it to break into the performance range traditionally reserved for -offline, static language compilers. -

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